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24 Cards in this Set
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Nostalgia Trap |
To examine our large social system Ex - Nuclear Family (dad,mom,kids) |
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Social Institution |
A system of behavioral and relationship patterns that are densely interwoven and enduring and function across a society. They order and structure the behavior of individuals by means of their normative character. |
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Mcdonaldization |
The process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. |
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Social Cohesion |
Is the degree to which people are in a social system identify with and feel bound to support it; willingness of members of a group to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper. |
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Civic Engagement |
It means promoting the quality of life in a community,through political and non-political processes. |
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What are 3 examples of 'social structures? |
- Social Institutions -Normative Culture - Social Hierarchies |
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What are Lenski's four types of societies ,and what did he think drive the shift from one into another? |
- hunting and gathering, horticultural and pastoral, agriculture, industrialism, and post industrialism. -Technology |
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What core differences in labor and production from Agrarian to Industrial cultures? |
- the agrarian use animal drawn plows while the industrial use advanced sources of energy and mechanized production. |
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According to social scientist ,why would we expect to see lower levels of social (wealth and gender) inequality in hunter-gatherer societies than in other types of societies? |
Because all people in in these societies have few possessions,the societies are fairly egalitarian ,and the degree of inequality is very low. |
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Given a statement ,identify it as most reflecting one of the four theoretical perspectives? |
Conflict Theory |
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Be able to link certain explanations for gender stratification with the three theoretical perspectives |
See small sheet |
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Be able to recognize and give examples of 5 key characteristics of Mcdonaldization as described by Ritzer. |
-Calculation -efficiency -predictability -control via technology |
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Be able to produce an example of the irrationality of rationality |
Short-term efficiency leading to long term problems. -food in microwave, fast but taste less good |
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Be able recognize examples of mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity. |
Mechanical Solidarity- people are his by shared belief and experiences. Ex: farm family Organic Solidarity- people held together by needs for each other's services. Ex: the city |
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What has changed about three elements of community in recent decades according to the lecture? |
They can be separated. |
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Social Capital |
The networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society's, enabling that society to function effectively. |
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De-territorialization |
Movement away from social forms based wholly or partially on spatial or geographic entities. |
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Networked Individualism |
The linking of people in a "world of individuals ,"based upon individual characteristics, preferences and resources. -made possible especially via digital micro-technologies. |
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Individual network power |
You have the power to have broad influence on a social network. |
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Reference group |
Any group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their status or behavior. |
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How are weak ties helpful and "stronger" than our strong social ties ? |
People in our "strong tie" groups are to similar to us . -There is no diversity and people are prone to be bias |
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Be able to identify in action the three possible explanations for why people in groups tend to be similar. |
-induction: one person sees something online and thinks it's cool and copies it
-confounding: people seeing someone famous doing something and it makes them do the same.
-homophily: people form ties already doing things (pulled together by similarities) |
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Be able to recognize in a vignette the presence and/or absence of one or another type of social capital. |
Look at notes |
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Given an example , be able to note which type of social capital is missing from the described group condition. |
Look at notes |