50 mcq one shot no time limit cut off time is 11:55 PM Sunday
test is on:
What is sociology interested in? seeing the strange in the familiar
- Asking Why
- The familiar is so familiar it becomes invisible. She knows how she got to work today but she could not tell you how she got to work today
- why is the population at this community college so much more diverse than say, students that attend unc chapel hill
- her son asking why he couldnt wear lipstick seeing individual in a social context
- Seeing the individual in the context of history and culture
- how does history and culture influence our choices seeing general in the particular
- stepping back and noticing general trends in the world from a particular experience in your life.
- When her husband went to go buy a car, she bought it in her name, all the salesmen ignored her to go talk to her husband. she could say, what have i done why do these salesmen ignore me??? She could step back though, and notice that this happens to her other female friends. social forces
- social forces are like waves
- some are small
- some come up and knock you down
- economic inequality is a social force
- economic inequality is also a culture, a way of life. Some people are raised with the expectation of COURSE you were going to college. structural functionalism
- society is a complex system who’s parts work together to create one cohesive whole conflict
- individuals in society interact based on conflict rather than agreement.
- fight for scarce resources drives society symbolic interactionism scapegoating
- blaming someone for your own failure
- her friend in college got a couple bad reviews because her friend was pregnant, because everyone knows pregnant women are crazy and not good teachers
- her dad with the immigrants, he was scapegoating the immigrants to explain why he was fired Class consciousness
- society is characterized by inequality, and that inequality is over scarce resources
- class consciousness is when you realize the larger battle going on
- realizing that you and others are in the same boat, you are not actually enemies, you are both fighting for the same resource ( job, healthcare, clean water, etc ) False consciousness
- when you do not realize the larger battle going on.
- you do not realize you are in the same boat. you fight eachother rather than the system
- her dad and the job and the immigrants. the immigrants and her dad had more in common than they both realized. if he had class consciousness, they would have fought the system together. but he had false consciousness, so he fought the immigrants culture
- everything that describes how people live subculture
- a smaller culture within the larger culture
- i am a programmer
- i am a son
- i am a college student counterculture
- A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores
- hippies in the 60s
- native americans when we started america sapir-whorf hypothesis
- language impacts how we think about the world. e.g. if we dont have a word for a concept in our language, we have a rough time thinking about the idea norms
- the rules of a society values
- the rulers for what things that are good mean sanctions
- society’s punishements or incentives applied applied on people’s actions. cultural relativism
- Cultural relativism is the idea that beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on the cultural context from which they arise, rather than judged against the standards of another culture. It emphasizes that no culture is superior to another and that moral codes vary between societies.
- leaving your culture behind a little bit and stepping into the shoes of someone in that culture to understand their habits ethnocentrism
- Tendency to evaluate other people, activities, etc, primarily from the perspective of yours being superior
- using your culture to judge another culture scarce resources
- Things / concepts that we do not have unlimited of, give power non material culture
- anything you cant touch that describes how people live
- Gestures, norms, values, language, sanctions, symbols
- cannot touch them, but they are part of our culture
- also called symbolic culture material culture
- anything you can touch that describes how people live
- anthropologists can use old tools they found to figure out how old cultures lived
- tools, technology, art, is material culture nature vs nurture
- little bit of both socialization looking glass self
- 3 parts to it
- we interact
- i interpret your reaction to me. I dont really know what you are thinking, but im just interpreting what i see
- from that interpretation, I form a sense of who I am. I am looking at you like you are a mirror of me.
- if i am looking at you stonefaced and frowny, then you will think you did something wrong thomas theorum
- Theory that says “sometimes things happen because we make them happen, self fulfilling prophecy. Situations defined as real become real, because of our actions or inactions.”
- can also be you living up to the expectations of others ( teachers group up bad kids together and good kids together ) agents of socialization
- examples: family, mass media, school hidden curriculum
- things like, obedience, competitiveness, and neatness are all part of what a school teaches, but are not part of the actual curriculum ascribe status
- you were born with this trait ( e.g. I am a Son ) achieved status
- you did something for this trait ( e.g. I am a nobel prize winner ) role strain
- when you need to be focusing on 2 roles at one time e.g. friends are supportive, and friends are honest
- he cheated on her! but im supposed to support him! but im also supposed to be honest with him about what i think! role conflict
- when 2 roles conflict with eachother, like mom vs teacher, when the baby gets sick during a schoolday
- she has to go help the baby, and not do teaching total institution
- rehab, prison, etc
- make you give up your individual personality and learn a new one given to you buy the institution social structure cases of isolated children role
3 that aren’t covered in class: ascribed status and achieved status Some statuses you didn’t ask for, you were born into statuses you were born into is an ascribed status
a status where you have to do something to get the status is an achieved status
Thomas Theorum Theory that says “sometimes things happen because we make them happen, self fulfilling prophecy. Situations defined as real become real, because of our actions or inactions.”
can also be you living up to the expectations of others ( teachers group up bad kids together and good kids together )
labeling theory: They see me as a thug and only as a thug then i might as well be a thug
some qs want: definition or provide or recognize an example or application ( can you apply it )
what does seeing the individual in a social context mean answer: Thinking about how historical and cultural context influence behaviors and choices
Not: thinking about how indiviuals have free will thinking about how only the wealth and powerful can gain status thinking about how dna and genes determine life chance
The process by which schools focus on behavioral straits such as punctuality discipliine neatness competition and obedience is referred to as the : answer :hidden curriculum
not: function of education educational socialization cultural leveling
todd is a student, an employee, a friend, and volunteers as a baseball coach answer: status set not: master status Other answers not shown
which of the folllowing are examples of scarce resources money voice water answer: all of the above
you might not think voice but think who is able to speak, thats power.