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21 Cards in this Set
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Standpoint
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Your specific life circumstances develop a unique perspective from which you interpret your life events and the world holistically
Dorothy Smith |
A person may be vehemently against tobacco use after having a parent die from lung cancer because they had a negative experience which derived from use of that substance.
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Intersectionality / Matrix of Domination
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The intermingled relationship various facets of your life have with the level of agency and overall status you have as an individual
Dorothy Smith |
A white female in the USA occupies the status of woman, which is an oppressed group, but also operates in a majority racial group and enjoys privilege alongside her oppression.
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Double Consciousness (Bifurcation of Consciousness)
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Having to understand the majority opinion/standpoint as a way of perceiving social norms in addition to having one’s own opinion based on personal biography and/or statuses one occupies.
Dorothy Smith |
Women have to interpret and learn from a majority male standpoint because of how academic and history is written as well as interpret the world from their own experiences which is extremely different based on the way we preform gender
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Core and Periphery
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Core countries are dominant capitalist countries that exploit peripheral countries for labor and raw materialsPeriphery export raw materials to the core countries, and they are dependent on core countries for capital and have underdeveloped industry
Immanuel Wallerstein |
America is a core country which utilizes equatorial states for cheap materials and labor. Hardly any products sold in America on a mass scale are produced there.
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Orientalism
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Creating stereotypes, fantasies, and ideological suspicions about countries in which their cultures have been put into the context of being “oriented” around Europe as a dominant center.
Edward Said |
Muslim cultures being seen as either oil suppliers or terrorists; their part of the world being characterized as the “Middle-East”
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The Colonized 'Other'
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When a colonizer rewrites the image of a colonized group/culture in order to legitimize the process of colonization itself and maintain their power as a majority group
Edward Said |
Western European colonists claiming that they are “civilizing” Native Americans and doing them some sort of favor by conquering their land and destroying their culture
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Disciplinary Society
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A type of society that relies on possible surveillance to regulate human activity and create self-driven discipline
Michelle Foucault |
You may want to steal something off of the shelf at the grocery store, and it may seem easy, however you do not because there could be security cameras watching you and tracking you.
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Simulacra
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Copies of something where there is no original version of it in reality
Jean Boudrillard |
Disney World is a copy of a fictive reality which was created by an animator and only existed as a cartoon.
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Hyperreality
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When the ability to differentiate between “reality” and what is a simulation has dissolved
Jean Boudrillard |
The first Gulf War had a set of events that actually happened, and then there was the media’s conception of it.
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Symbolic Interactionism
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Stresses agency; aligning human behavior with joint actions by constructing a shared interpretation of people’s gestures
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Individual case studies of micro-events which are then applied to larger sociological concepts are examples of a SI approach to analysis.
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Impression Management; Front and Back Stage
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Conscious/unconscious verbal/nonverbal practices that attempt to control your perception of yourself to others
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You might wear a sweatshirt with the name of your university on it because it is prestigious and you want people to think you have social capital and are smart
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Emotion Work / Emotional labor
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(EW):Efforts you undergo to alter your emotions in order to adhere to cultural norms(EL):Deep acting sold for a wage
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Trying not to cry in public because it’s not socially acceptable even though your instinct is to do soBeing happy and pleasant to customers in order to fulfill a job title even if you do not feel that way
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Total Institution
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A place one cohabits and works with others for an extended amount of time where your multiple selves are lost by killing off identities; you are simplified down to one role you act out
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As a patient in an asylum you are reduced to the status of patient and thus lose ability to express your role/status as a daughter, mother, grandmother, teacher, person of color, etc.
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Social Construction of Reality
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Humans create a set of rules which govern reality and allow people from a variety of backgrounds to interact in a way which makes sense to all of them. The process consists of habitualization, institutionalization, reification, and internalization.
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All languages are habitualized, then institutionalized (shared amongst humans), then reified as a real infallible phenomenon, then consciously given meaning to by individuals.
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Reification
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When an idea is treated as though it has a real existence
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In South Park when Randy continually personifies the “Economy” and acts as though it functions as it’s own being with agency
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Breaching Experiments
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Method for identifying the building blocks of everyday interaction and purposefully defying them to demonstrate those norms
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Treating family members with the same cordiality as you would strangers breaches societal norms and puts others in the position of questioning what you are doing, as it is not what they’ve expected
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The Generalized Other
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Whenever someone sets expectations on other people in which they assume how they would react to an action/condition, they are enacting the mentality of the generalized other.
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When you anticipate that someone may label you as being “goth” or “depressed” for wearing black, you take on the mentality of the generalized other to assess yourself.
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Functionalism
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Society is held together by a consensus that there is a need for various institutions that area created by humans. Such institutions fulfill societal needs.
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The functionalist perspective of religion is that it exists because humans seek to understand that there is a greater entity responsible for our creation, thus religion fulfills that need.
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Manifest and latent functions; Dysfunction
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MF: The intended results that occur from an institution in societyLF: Unintended consequences that occur from an institutions discourse. Can be either negative or positiveD: Failures of societal institutions
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The manifest function of heterosexual marriage is to regulate people’s sexuality and trace ancestral lineages.A latent function of marriage may be that it reinforces itself as the only option for producing offspring.A dysfunction of marriage is divorce.
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Lifeworld
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The state of affairs in which the world is lived and shared by others
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Communicative action
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When humans participate in mutual argumentation and deliberation in order to enact cooperative actions
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