Sociology 205 Final Exam
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Who was Durkheim?
Emphasis on?
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Emphasis on culture-need to integrate members of society into a coherent whole
Was interested in religion-suicide
Mechanical solidarity-operates in traditional and small sclae societies
Organic solidarity-modern and industrial societies
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Types of suicide:
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anomic-when we are disconnected
egoistic-few/weak social ties
altruistic-too strongly connected to a group
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What was Durkheim's theory?
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Functionalist-views society as a biological entity
Parts of society have specialized functions that function for the survival of society
E.g. function of family-produce people
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Who was Max Weber?
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Forerunner of Conflict theory
believed sociology could not develop general, universal natural laws to explain society
Dynamics of social inequality are more complex than Marx believes
-Economic-control of production
-Status-prestige/honor
-Power-politcal power
Conflict does not …
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What is conflict theory?
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Focuses on inequalities between social groups
Groups-unequal in status
Material inequality
Racial differences
All social structures are rige with tension and potential conflict
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Who was Karl Marx?
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Rejected claims that universal principles could explain societies
Activist-worked to change social world in ways that reduce inequalities
Superstructure-art, culture, religion, political system, understanding human nature
Substructure-economic system-society's means of production
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What are the basic elements of the economy?
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Technology-knowledge about how to manipulate the environment
Labor-human effort
Capital-Tools or implements used to gather, produce, and distribute
Entrepreneurship-How technology, labor, and capital are organized in order to gather, produce, and distribute
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Who was Polyani?
His beliefs?
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Markets emerged because the states imposed them after the economy started failing with the Enclosure Act
State must exist in order for market economies to function
Self Regulating markets-what we have now
Markets emerged as the result of scarcity
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What are the three strategies of power?
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1. Money-controls people b/c paid in money
Shortcoming-workers try to manipulate situation to do little work and get paid for hours
2. FORCE-COERCION
teachers make students work
Shortcoming-None like being coerced can rebel
3. SOLIDARITY
social rituals-sense of group identity
r…
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What is the Symbolic Interactionist Theory?
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facial expressions have meaning
signaling and interpreting symbols
Mead & Blumer
world of meaning
How is shared meaning created, communicated, and maintained?
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Utilitarian/Rationalist Theory?
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Associated with economics
Costs and benefits
Adam Smith
Life as a series of decision points
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What are the five principles of inequality?
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Ubiquitous-exists in every know human group; any feature can be a basis for inequality
Interaction generates INequality-The process of Interaction itself tends to create inequality in rates of participation, influence, and leadership.
INequality is STABLE-once a system of inequality…
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Social inequality
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Unequal access to valued resources and opportunities in society
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Cultural capital
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"The general cultural background, knowledge disposition, and skills that are passed from one generation to the next."
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Social stratification
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A system of inequality in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative power, property (wealth), and presige
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Social mobility
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Movement, either vertical or horizontal, within a system of inequality.
Vertical movement-means up or down in the stratification; gaining higher level of access to resourcesl or losing such access.
Horizontal movement is from one occupation(or location) to another, without an increa…
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What are the two systems of inequality?
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Caste-Closed system; little movement available; a person's place in a caste system is usually an ascribed characteristic; people are born into a particular caste, and there is little room for mobility
Class System-Ostensibly more fluid, allowing for social mobility
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Social Class
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one's position in a class-based system of inequality
Provides a major basis for personal and public identity
Affects more aspects of life than any other key status
Where you live, Level of education, life expectancy, risk of victimization/violent & property crime; quality of medical …
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SES
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Socioeconomic status: income, occupation, education; social class
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Achievement Ideology
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The reigning social perspective that sees American Society as open and fair and full of opportunity; success is based on merit, and economic inequalities are caused by differences in ambition and ability
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Reproduction of Class
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The cross generational passing of the class structure
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Example in ANMI where inequality is supported at the top and at the bottom-
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INstead of building houses for the poor, the US, according to MacLeod, has directly and indirectly subsidized homes for the better-off. 10 million upper and middle class houses were built for the better of, while only 800,000 houses were built for poor.
Public housing is cheap and in 1…
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Example in ANMI that inequality is ubiquitous-exists in all groups and always has
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There will always be a top and a bottom.
Within every society, people with different races, genders, backgrounds, and abilities receive different shares of the overall economic output.
INequality has always existed with the Hallway Hangers and Brothers because that is why these grou…
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Inequality is stable, but difficult to stop
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The Hallway Hangers may not have tried to get out of poverty, but the Brothers believed they would be able to.
The Brothers, however, were unable to get out of poverty even though they tried. The Brothers just did not have the connections to get good jobs. PLus, the communities they cam…
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WHat makes up a free market?
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Buyers and Sellers
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What are Troubles?
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Troubles are within the individual and occur within the range of his immmediate relations with others.
They have to do with self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly personally aware.
A trouble is a private matter; values cherished by an individual ar…
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What are Issues?
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Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life.
An issue is a public matter: some value cherished by publics is being threatened.
An issue often involves a crisis in institutional arrangements.
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
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It is understanding the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
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When did professions first emerge?
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During the Enlightenment
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What is a characteristic of humanism?
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Discovery of Classic Greek tects and art
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What are the Type equations?
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Type I-best estimate of the relationship between 2 variables
Type 2-individual's positive belief; may not be accurate
Type 3-Individuals normal belief-what a person thinks ought to be and should be true
Type 4-what leads to the beliefs of 2 and 3
Type 5-the consequences of typ…
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What do Conflict theories focus on?
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Inequality
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What do values include?
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Evaluation of right and wrong
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What is ethnocentrism?
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Beliefs that one's culture is superior
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What do groups tend to differentiate between?
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Task and socio-emotional leaders
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What are gestures and significant gestures?
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Gestures are behaviors an organism emits which calls forth a response from another organism.
Significant gestures have a very definite, unmistakeable meaning.
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How would symbolic interactionists define "mind?"
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the covert rehersal of anticipated consequences of possible gestures and based on this rehersal the selection of a particular action of a gesture(thinking of the best way to teach something).
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What is entrepreneurship denote?
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The organization of technology, labor, and capital.
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What happens in hunter-gatherer societies?
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religion is built primarily around female images
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The labeling theory of deviance is part of which theoretical perspective?
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Interactionist
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Founding religions in America?
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Protestants cults
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What is reciprocity?
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Economy where individuals share resources across disjunct periods of time and maintaining honor motivates exchange relationships
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What is the set of sacred beings and forces in a given religion called?
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Pantheon
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What is sacred and profane?
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Sacred is more powerful than profane.
Profane-less powerful
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What are the three functions of an economy?
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Gather, transform, distribute
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What is the "double movement?"
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It is a historical movement when the state becomes more involved in times of hardship and less involved when there is an increase in economy.
It is the idea that as a society gets closer to the ideal market, more havoc is wreaked on the individual.
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How did Protestantism contribute to the spirit of capitalism according to Max Weber?
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changing of labor-work redefined
Stress as a problem
Work to alleviate stress
Predestination
"a callin"
Ascetism-simple lives
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What readings are examples of conflict theories?
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Sacred Cow
Roughnecks and the Saints
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What did Bowles and Gintis believe?
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Conflict theorists-deterministic end of the continuum
American educational system is subordinate to and reflects the class structure of the US
Schools train the wealthy to take up places at the top of the economy while conditioning the poor to accept their lowly status
The structure …
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How does the structure of school replicate work according to Bowles and Gintis?
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1. Organization of power
2. Student lack control over curriculum and workers lack control over work
3. Grades and wages-rewards
4. Competition between students/workers
5. Division of education into different disciplines-division of economy into occupations
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What did Bourdieu support?
What is cultural capital?
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Midway on the continuum
Cultural capital is general cultural background, knowledge disposition, and skills passed from one generation to the next.
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What are the four mechanisms of cultural capital that Bourdieu describes?
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1. Transmission-different cultural capital is transmitted to children of upper and working class
2. Valorization-Education system valorizes (to establish and maintain the price of a commodity by governmental action.
3. Academic achievement-Differential academic achievement leads to be…
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What is habitus?
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It is lasting transposable dispositions based on past experience
organizes perceptions, appreciations, and actions
it is cultural capital in the individual
attitudes, beliefs, and experiences one has based on the social world one inhabits.
A mediating link between the individual and t…
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What does Bernstein believe?
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Focus on differing language patterns acquired based on family socialization.
Restricted codes-working class children
Elaborated codes-middle class children
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What is the easy Bourdieu belief?
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Individual agents' practices-> Habitus -> Aspirations
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What did Willis believe?
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Meaning system-Ethnographic Attempt is to understand the meaning system of the boys from the perspective of the boys themselves.
participant observation of working class males in British boarding school
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What is Giroux's belief?
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Student resistance to school
Ideology and Consciousness understanding should be included in reproduction theory.
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What is Social Reproduction Theory?
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a. Analyzes how class structure is reproduced from one generation to the next
i. Example-why are poor at disadvantage in scramble for good jobs?
b. Explores how social relations of capitalist society are reproduced
c. Shows that schools reinforce social inequality while pretending to d…
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What is Social Reproduction?
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the tendency of working class children to end up in working-class occupations
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What does deterministic mean?
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Focus on economic structural as most important (Bowles and Gintis)
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What are the theories of Social Reproduction?
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1. Deterministic models
2. Autonomous individual models
3. In-Between models
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What are Autonomous Individual models?
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Attempt to understand experiences of individuals from their own perspective and a stress on culture.
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What are the In-Between SR models?
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Bourdieau, Berstein, and Heath
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What is prejudice? Effects?
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beliefs or cultural meanings because he is a member of a particular ethnic group is undesirable
Effects-negative belief or social meaning associated with different ethnic categories.
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What is discrimination?
Effects?
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differential treatment of a person based on his ethnicity
Effect-differential behavior to others based on negative social cultural differences
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What is the relationship between Prejudice and Discrimination?
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1. All-weather liberal-DOES NOT HOLD PREJUDICES OR DISCRIMINATE
2. Reluctant Liberal-IS NOT PREJUDICED, but MIGHT DISCRIMINATE
3. Timid Bigot-HOLD PREJUDICIAL BELIEFS, but because of social pressures, DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE
All-Weather Bigot-HOLDS PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATES
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What does race as a Social Construct include?
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1. Race as biological difference
2. Race as socially constructed
3. Ethnicity as behavioral, cultural, and organizational
4. Ethnicity and race correlated
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What is institutionalized discrimination?
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Consistent and pervasive pattern of discrimination
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What are part of the dynamics of ethnic stratification?
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Relative Resource of Ethnic Populations-more resources ethnic group has, the more it can fight discrimination
Identifiability of An Ethnic Population-language and religious beliefs can make people targets
Level and Type of Discrimination-Genocide (ethnics are killed off through expu…
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What are the explanations of kinship and what do they mean?
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Sociobiological-As natural selection worked on the ancestors of humans, it forged bonds between men and women that endured. This perspective would emphasize that, in staying together and protecting their chid, parents assured that at least one half of their genes stayed in the gene pool.
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What are the Basic elements of kinship?
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1. Marriage rules
2. Descent rules
3. Residence rules
4. Rules of Family Size and Composition
5. Rules on the Division of Labor
6. Rules of Authority
7. Rules of Dissolution
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What are Historical trends in the Structure of Kinship?
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From relative Equality-Simple system of Hunters and gatherers, clear division of labor.
Toward Growing Inequality and Patriarchy-horticulture and agrarian economies where KINSHIP IS THE FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENT OF BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS.
A Conflict Perspective on Family-differences…
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What does Kinship in America consist of?
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Basic-division of labor between men and women
Romantic Love and Marriage
Divorce and Dissolution in American Families
Single-Parent Households
Family Violence
An Empty Nest Syndrome?
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What are the emerging alternative families?
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1. Gay and lesbians
2. Cohabitation
3. Families without Children
4. Being Single
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What is the Future of the Family in America?
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Single-parent houselands may increase
Divorce rates high
More gays >(
More fams without children
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What is Stratification?
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General term used to describe a society that distributes income, power, prestige, and other valued resources to its members unequally and creates distinctive classes of members who are culturally, behaviorally, and organizationally different.
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What are the properties of stratification?
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Degree-determined by how unequally resources are distributed
Distinctiveness of social classes-how they are
Mobility-how much it occurs between classes
Stability-how permanent classes are
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Karl Marx's belief on Stratification
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those who own means of production can control the house of power, cultural symbols, work activities, and lifestyles of others.
Bougeoisie are driven by proleteriat
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Max Weber's view on Stratification
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Stratification was multidimensional
Revolved around classes, parties (orgz of power), and status groups
Has charismatic leader-emerges when society-wide conflicts emerge, such as:
-high correlation of membership in classes, parties, and status groups
-Great discontinuity in resources …
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What is the functional theory of stratification?
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Some positions are functionally required
Difficult to fill
Motivation-motivates people to undergo training and sacrifice necessary to do a functionally important skill in society.
Critique-people gain resources by luck, abuse of power, corruption...
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How did Bourdieu analyze class in terms of capital?
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There were many types of capital
-Social-connection to other people
-Cultural-level of edu/interpersonal skills
-Economic-material possessions
-Symbolic-ideologies justifying inequality in first 3
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What are the three types of classes?
(according to Bourdieu)
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3 basic-dominant, middle-class, lower-class
Each of these as dominant, middle and lower.
Dominant Class-Dom-control of economic resources. Mid(2)-some economic access (has higher education/credentials). Lower(3)-lower access to economic resources/power, but have cultural social acce…
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What are the three kinds of inequality?
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Two main types of inequality in the UNITED STATES?
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1.Wealth-20% of Americans have most of the wealth
2. Income
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What is the relationship between education and the state?
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Education dramatically expanded with the emergence of state forms of governence.
Governments require adminstrative specialists.
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What is the functionalist explanation of education?
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Education emerges and expands to meet the NEEDS of a society for literacy, skill, knowledge, control...
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what are the five major consequences(functions) of education?
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1. Cultural storage-written language/education helps us to keep, maintain, and preserve cultural system of a society
2. Cultural Expansion and Change-cultural innovation, research into cultures, edu provides skills to expand a person's culture
3. Socialization-people learn how to pa…
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What was the conflict perspective of education?
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Marx-education operates to sustain the inequalities inherent in capitalist society-Free education will preserve the existing class structure
Max Weber-school system is a tool for maintaining the cultural differences among individuals
-Groups compete with each other to gain and sustain…
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What are the three levels of education?
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Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education
Multiple track system-secondary schools train people for jobs
Single track-all kids in US must go to Primary and Secondary schools, but within Secondary school are lanes directing students into vocational and college-prep courses
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What is the structure of American education?
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Mass education-primary-school-education extends everywhere
Educational Democracy-Mass edu does not mean equal edu. Quality of schools varies. Rural areas have poorer education. FAR FROM COMPLETE DEMOCRACY in the educational system of America
Decentralization-US is least centralized …
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What are the three main parts of higher education in America?
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Scale-US has more colleges thatn any other country in world
Diversity-public/private, community, large and small, liberal arts, non graduate programs
Decentralization-research for funding from governmental orgzs and for sponsors
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What are some problems in lower and higher education systems?
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Lower-Stratification
Discispline and violence
Finances
Vouchers and school choice
Declining Standards
Higher-Credentialism
Corporatization
Diversity and Equity
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What are the indicators of inequality?
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1. Income
2. (wealth)
3. Education
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