Power & Authority in China
What does power mean in SOC?
The ability to influence or control others
What is surveillance?
Monitoring people’s behaviour
What is censorship?
Controlling information people can access
What does continuity mean?
Something staying the same
Name one social theory.
Conflict, Evolutionary, Functionalist and Interactionist
Who holds political authority in China?
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Name one surveillance tool used in China
CCTV cameras / facial recognition
What is China’s restricted internet called?
The Great Firewall
What does change mean?
Something becoming different
Which theory focuses on inequality and power?
Conflict theory
Name one way the CCP maintains power
Laws, surveillance, censorship, etc (any one)
Surveillance often causes people to do what?
Self-censor or conform
Social media posts critical of the government are usually what?
Removed / blocked
Is government control in China mostly continuity or change?
Continuity
Conflict theory sees society as a struggle over what?
Power
Power exercised by the national government is at what level of society?
Macro Level
Surveillance mainly increases social control or social freedom?
Social control
Censorship mainly limits which freedom?
Freedom of expression
Technology has increased the speed of social _______?
Change
In the next 5–10 years, surveillance in China is likely to increase or decrease?
Increase
Power that influences individual behaviour in daily life is at what level?
Micro level
Surveillance in China is used mostly to maintain what?
Authority / stability / control
Censorship helps the government control what?
Information / public opinion
Surveillance technology represents a change in what method of control?
Social control
Technology will make government control more or less effective?
More effective