SOCI 205: EXAM 1
64 Cards in this Set
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Sociological Imagination
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*C. Wright Mills
*Understanding the connection between yourself and other people and how you fit in society
*Allows to view in a new perspective
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Social Character
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-overall personality of society
-'What's going on around you'
-personal troubles vs. public issue: threat to self vs relate to the whole/can mobilize change
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Face Work
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*Goffman
*maintain SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM
*social obligation - the need to maintain a proper self image to continue social interaction (fulfill social standards)
*self-image
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Breaking Face
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*Goffman
*show something that may/may not be a social obligation
*take action to "save face"
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Methods of Face Work in face of threat
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1. avoidance
2. denial
3. corrective
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Examples of Face Work
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eg. Nicki and Miley
face saving and breaking face
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Microfoundations of Macrosociology
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*Collins
*interaction ritual chains
*macro comes from the micro
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Macro comes from the
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Micro
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Interaction Ritual Chains
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rituals in everyday life, produce higher or lower levels of group solidarity
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Division of Labor
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*Durkheim
*solidarity (unity)
*function of society; cooperation
*"we all have a role to play"
*production and consumption
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With no division of labor, there is
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no society
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Durkheim Suicide
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*social phenomenon/ fact
*breaking relationship with society (social death)
*any death which is direct or indirect result of a positive or negative act accomplished by the victim themselves
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Deinstitution of Marriage
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*Cherlin
*weakening of the social norms that define people's behavior in a social institution
*cohabitation
*WEDDING>marriage
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The Lonely Crowd
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*Riesman
*1950s - most influential work of social analysis
(asked to remember pic)
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Tradition Directed
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*SHAME
*molded by ritual, religion, and routine (tradition)
*SURVIVAL
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Social reality
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an individual's/local's reality; what's going on around you
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Inner Directed
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-internal direction (gyroscope)
-set by an authority figure
-class
-right vs. wrong; have a choice
-impacted by family
-GUILT
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Other Directed
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-governed by peers
-conformity
-peer group >family
-mass communication is huge influence
-ANXIETY
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Inner Directed Teachers
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-proxy parent
- structure
- standardized curriculum
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Other Directed Teacher
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- focus on socialization
- group integration
- 'friend'
- cooperation > knowledge/learning
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Gyroscope
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inner directed
inside, moral compass
potential in self
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Change in Society relative to women
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1. primitive society: women rule
2. industrial revolution: women are property
3. post WWII: women at home
4. 2nd wave feminism: back to work force, but not equal
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The Feminist Mystique
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women depressed (housewives only purpose)
only meant to marry and have kids
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TD Language
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- storytellers
- elders
- conveys values, controls limits, cautionary tales
-oral tradition
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ID Language
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- privacy of the book
- socialize or un-socialize
- have meaning/lessons
- what books society wanted to be read
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OD Language
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- building consumer habit
- reading as group activity
- realism
- winning >morality (war)
- follow what people say
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ID Work
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separate work and pleasure
Invisible Hand - individual actions of society that allows society to cooperate "div of labor"
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Aim for the Stars
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achieve something/ specific goal
Inner Directed
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ID Property
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- isolation: dividing self from community
- furniture reflected social class (identity)
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OD Work
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work IS pleasure (fun)
people minded
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Aim for the Milky Way
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Not about out-shining but about blending in
Other Directed
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ID Food
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display only, based on class
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OD Food
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displays taste (what others are doing)
"The Joy of Cooking"
"Epic Meal Time"
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ID Sex
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regulated to proper time and place
separated from production and reproduction
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OD Sex
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daytime & playtime consciousness
"reassurance that they are alive"
Dating - test ability to attract
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Moralizer
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Inner directed politics
- romanticize a govt. of laws , not man
self-improvement
SPHERE OF PRODUCTION
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Inside Dopester
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Other directed politics
-romanticizes a govt. of men, not laws
resemble
MEDIA plays big role
SPHERE OF CONSUMPTION
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Mass Media
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- controlling information
- censorship of materials
- must appeal to the audience
- symbol of prestige
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Politics Signifigance
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OD entertainment, sign of presitge
- we have availability and access
- no sincerity
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People in Power
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- captains of industry
-LOBBYISTS and vetoist
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Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx (1848)
-conflict theory
-effects of capitalism and industrialization
-critiquing private property
-class, race, gender - always warfare (always struggling for equality)
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Conflict Theory
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Always powerful vs. least powerful
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Alienation
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machine, reduces your value, strips creativity
alienated from yourself
reality
Activity of production
no pride in it
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Devaluation of humans
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- you are what you produce
-objects > human beings
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Activity of Production
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Objectify
- become separate
- fulfill needs of more than just you
- become a machine
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Man produces
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Universally
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Asceticism
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Self-denial
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What is Emotion Work?
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Hochschild
- social order = emotional management
-what you're feeling vs. what you're 'supposed' to feel
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Types of Emotion Work
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evocation: desired feelings that are absent (I should feel like)
suppression: undesired feelings that are present (I shouldn't feel like)
reinforced by social system, by people
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Techniques of Emotion Work
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1. cognitive - change of what you think
2. bodily - change of physical symptoms of emotion
3. expressive - change of gestures and face; face reflects what you're supposed to feel
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Foucault
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- docile body (manipulation)
- regulation through institution
- power
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Panopticon
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A social mechanism of control where people know that while they are not watched all the time, they may be watched at any time.
Circular Prison, designed by Bentham
"we're all agents of a panopticon"
eg. NSA, social media, Santa Claus, google maps
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Marijuana Use
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Becker
** deviant behavior in time produces deviant motivation
- power upon SOCIALIZATION process of peers
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Stages of Marijuana User
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1. beginner
2. occasional user
3. regular user
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Controls of Marijuana Use
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- supply
- secrecy
- moral issue
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Mark of a Criminal Record
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- mass imprisonment: rate of imprisonment that is significantly above the historical and comparative norm for the societies of this type
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"On the run"
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Alice Goffman
- anyone whose claim to a life outside of confinement is not secure or legitimate and who may be taken into custody if they encounter the authorities
change social activites
1. avoid places, people, and interactions
2. cultivate unpredictability
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Secondary Deviance
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those accorded a deviant status come to deviance
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Results of 'Mark of a Criminal Record' Experiment
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1. Employment discrimination still does affect today
2. Race still is an issue in employment prospects
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Sexuality
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-cultural production with cultural effects
Athens, Greece
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Modern Analysis of Sexuality
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-mixed with personality
- sexual expression and meeting of standards
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Sexuality if Greece
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Autonomy - separate sphere of existence
* an act can not be connected to identity
dominance and subordinance
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Sexual Deviants
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abandonment of culturally constructed roles
not a fixed identity
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Tutor of Consumption
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mass media
popular culture
show you what to have
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Sociology 205 Final Exam