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Nostalgia Trap

To examine our large social system


Ex - Nuclear Family (dad,mom,kids)

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.

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.

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.

Civic Engagement

It means promoting the quality of life in a community,through political and non-political processes.

What are 3 examples of 'social structures?

- Social Institutions


-Normative Culture


- Social Hierarchies

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

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.

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.

Given a statement ,identify it as most reflecting one of the four theoretical perspectives?

Conflict Theory

Be able to link certain explanations for gender stratification with the three theoretical perspectives

See small sheet

Be able to recognize and give examples of 5 key characteristics of Mcdonaldization as described by Ritzer.

-Calculation


-efficiency


-predictability


-control via technology

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


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

What has changed about three elements of community in recent decades according to the lecture?

They can be separated.


Social Capital

The networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society's, enabling that society to function effectively.

De-territorialization

Movement away from social forms based wholly or partially on spatial or geographic entities.

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.

Individual network power

You have the power to have broad influence on a social network.

Reference group

Any group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their status or behavior.

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

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)

Be able to recognize in a vignette the presence and/or absence of one or another type of social capital.

Look at notes

Given an example , be able to note which type of social capital is missing from the described group condition.

Look at notes