Types of Societies
Theoretical Perspectives on Society
Social Constructions of Reality
To Be, or Not to Be?
Heroes and Villains!
100
This type of society existed within one of the three major types of societies; it demonstrated the use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food
What are Hunter-Gatherer Societies?
100
When bureaucratic organizations cause you to feel stuck by labor becoming too rational, organized, and specialized; could extend beyond labor to your personal lives.
What is the Iron Cage?
100
Patterns of behavior which are representative of a person's social position.
What are Roles?
100
Where individuals hide their imperfections, usually where they prepare for their performance aka their interactions with others throughout the day.
What is the Back Stage?
100
This Holocaust survivor has the ability to manipulate all forms of magnetism, summon force fields, and shoot electromagnetic pulses.
Who is Magneto?
200
During the rise of this society, technology increased while human community decreased, moving people from their farms and a simple way of living to the overcrowded, filthy cities to work in factories.
What is an Industrial Society?
200
When an individual becomes isolated from society, their work, and their own sense of self because of the labor they are objectified by; Marx said this to be the result of a capitalist society.
What is Alienation?
200
A social position you receive at birth, giving you little or no choice of receiving it.
What is Ascribed Status?
200
We put on a performance to everyone we come to interact with, they are basically our audience.
What is Dramaturgy [Dramaturgical Analysis]?
200
With a shout of his name this child transforms into an adult superhero empowered by the abilities of six legendary figures!
Who is Shazam! [Captain Marvel]?
300
Societies operating on a strict hierarchal system of power based on land ownership and protection.
What are Feudal Societies?
300
When the capitalist bourgeoisie took advantage of the unemployed by treating them to poor work conditions, high expectations, worker competition, etc., yet workers still continued to work because if they weren't there to do their job someone else would be.
What is the Reserve Armory of Labor [Army of Reserved Laborers]?
300
Mariel is a single mother and she is stressed out about her busy week of having to take her daughter to the doctor, school, soccer practice, and helping her sell girl scout cookies.
What is Role Strain?
300
According to Cooley, we base our own image on what we think other people will see.
What is the Looking-Glass Self?
300
With only a flip of a coin, this villain becomes judge, jury, and executioner in a split second.
Who is Two-Face?
400
This type of society relies on farming as a way of life.
What are Agricultural Societies?
400
When each individual in society has a specialized task to perform through their labor.
What is the Division of Labor?
400
This idea is about how society is constructed by us as well as those before us, it becomes a pattern.
What is Habitualization?
400
How we WANT to be PERCEIVED by others.
What is Impression Management?
400
When his mother was bitten and killed by a vampire while giving birth, certain enzymes transferred into his bloodstream. In the process, his vampiric, super-human strength, exceptional martial art skills, and imperviousness to sunlight turned this half-man/half-vampire into the "Daywalker."
Who is Blade?
500
In this type of society, power lies with those in charge of storing and distributing information.
What is a Postindustrial Society?
500
Durkheim feared this outcome to occur when society provided little to no moral guidance to individuals within that society causing a breakdown or disappearance of the norms and values that were previously common to the society.
What is [Social] Anomie?
500
You believe Tuesday's exam is going to be too difficult and you're going to get a bad grade no matter what so you tell yourself "why bother studying?" You don't study and ultimately end up getting a bad grade, making true of your initial thoughts.
What is the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
500
A person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others.
What is Presentation of Self?
500
The death of this bird and a trip to the Lazurus Pit transformed this once trusty sidekick into an anti-heroic assassin.
Who is Red Hood?
