Sociology 2

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List the agents of socialization

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Family, school, peer groups, mass media, religion, sports

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More on “Family”

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Most important. Teaches manners & norms, values & guidelines, religion, self concept, sex, gender, etc

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More on “School”

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Continues socialization. Cultural transmission, academic skill, aggressive behaviors, respect & obey authority.

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More on “Peers groups”

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Adolescence. Free from parental, spend more time with friends, end up returning to family norms and values.

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Social interaction definition

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Includes patterns of relationships in society

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Micro perspective

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Status, roles, groups

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Macro perspective

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Social institutions

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Status definition

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Recognized social position in society.

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Status set

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We have multiple statuses.

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Ascribed status

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Born with and can’t change or move. Race, bio. Sex, age.

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Achieved status

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Must put forth effort to obtain it. Student, economic status, etc.

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Social class definition

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Those who share the same social statuses.

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Master Status

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Can change according to who you’re with. Overrides every other status.

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Roles

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Expected behaviors attached to the ascribed and achieved statuses of men and women.

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Social institutions

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Meets the needs of society as a whole.

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SI “ideal model” or organizational structure.

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Bureaucracy

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Social Solidarity was found by who?

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Durkheim

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Mechanical (social solidarity)

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Held together by likeness, gemeinschaft, community.

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Organic (Social Solidarity)

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More diversity among people, industrial side of society, held together by differences (Gesellschaft)

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Social Stratification definition

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A society stratifies its members in a hierarchy & use whole categories of people on rungs.

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Characteristics of social stratification

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1. Characteristic of society as a whole

2. Universal but variable

3. Supported by a strong belief system

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Life chances

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Your placement on the stratification ladder determines this. The possibility of benefitting or suffering from opportunities or disadvantages that society offers.

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Social mobility

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Movement from one social status to another

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(Social mobility) horizontal

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Movement from one social position to another of equal status.

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(Social mobility) vertical

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Movement up or down from one status to another.

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Intragenerational mobility

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Movement within ones lifetime

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Inter generational mobility

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Movement from one generation to the next.

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Caste System

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Closed system, no mobility, based on ascription, guards against “ritual pollution”

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Class system

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Open system, based on merit, social mobility possible, soc. Class based on economic status.

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Pink Collar Jobs

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Jobs typically given to women but me still get paid more for.

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Conflict Theory

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Weber’s class

1. Power

2. Prestige

3. Wealth

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Functions of groups

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1. Defining boundaries

2. Choosing leaders

3. Making decisions

4. Setting goals

5. Assigning tasks

6. Controlling group members behaviors

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Group definition

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Clusters of people we interact with

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Secondary

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Larger in #, shorter duration, have impersonal & anonymous relationships, don’t know other members.

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Poverty

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Relative deprivation (can live)

Absolute deprivation (can’t live)

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Feminization of poverty

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63% women, 37% men.

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Homelessness

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40% of the homeless are families

Lack of affordable housing

Loss of jobs

Conversion of apts into town houses

Re gentrification of inter cities

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Socailization definition

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the social interaction that teaches the child the intellectual, social & physical skills needed to function as an adult

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Stage 3 - concrete stage

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(7-12) child has logical view of events, begins to connect cause/effect, can attach more than 1 symbol to an item

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Stage 4 - formal operational

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(12+) have ability for abstract thought, know about cause/effect, learn to reason logically

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Gender

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Refers to the expected behaviors of male and females

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3 step looking glass process & creator

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Charles H. Cooley

1. Imagine how actions/behaviors appear to others

2. ?

3. Judge ourself based on presumed judgement of others.

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Two different parts of self

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George Mead

1. I - unsocialized self

2. Me - socialized self

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2 basic primary drives

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Signing Freud

Eros - life instinct, need to bond

Thanatos - death instinct, aggression.

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3 elements of personality

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1. Cognitive

2. Emotion

3. Behavioral

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Examples of feral children

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Victor

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Examples of children reared in isolation

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Anna

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Institutionalized children

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Lacked social interaction, couldn’t bond to an adult.

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“Self”

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Developed when we become aware that we are a separate entity from things around us. Only thing that remains when status changes.

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Who developed “Self”

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Jean Piaget

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Piaget’s two loves of study

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Biology and epistemology

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Stage 1 - Sensorimotor

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Knows world only through senses, learns to imitate sounds and actions, existence does not depend on direct contact.

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Stage 2 -preoperational stage

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Language & symbols first used, not cabals of abstract thought, can’t see the world from others view.