Theorists & Theoretical Frameworks
Bonjour! Although my theories of religion and deviance are similar, I functionally stand out from all other theorists.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This is determined by culture; traits and behaviors categorized as masculine, feminine, both, neither, and everywhere in between.
What is gender?
Cultural. Comprised of language, tradition, foods, and religion. You get to choose what this is.
What is ethnicity?
A social movement that wants things to go back to the way they used to be or tries to stop social change.
What is a regressive movement?
social cohesion, meaning and purpose, and social control are functions of religion according to this sociologist.
Who is Durkheim?
I'm definitely not conflicted about my feelings towards capital.
Who is Karl Marx?
A person's _____________ is comprised of a spectrum of libido and sexual, aesthetic, emotional, and romantic attraction.
What is sexual orientation?
This changes based on where you are in the world, as well as by who is looking at you.
What is race?
The idea that technology changes society, and not the other way around.
What is technological determinism?
All new religions start as this.
What is a cult?
I finally understand why everyone is so dramatic.
Who is Erving Goffman?
What is queer theory?
What is religion?
Form of social change that requires a sense of community.
What is collective action?
Using Christian principles for progressive social change.
What is liberation theology?
Sometimes I strain to understand how something so obvious and intentional could manifest. But then again, maybe its function was in its latency all along. It's like magic. Maybe I'm a wizard...
Who is Robert King Merton?
Dividing and re-dividing by gender over and over, adding finer and finer degrees of masculinity and femininity to force things into a gender binary.
What is gender binary subdivision?
During the enlightenment era, Germans flipped the narrative about older beliefs about their "inherent inferiority" by stating they were decedents of these people.
Who are ancient Greeks?
The increase of retirement homes and need for more people to study the elderly is a result of this way social change happens.
What are demographic factors/population shifts?
This theorist stated that those without power in society are more likely to lean on religion heavily and use it like a drug to escape the reality and be comfortable with their powerlessness.
Who is Marx?
Got locked up, they won't let me out. Power doesn't like to be confronted... but why do others just blindly agree to it? Don't they know it harms them too? Guess it's time journal. Got plenty of time to write anyway...
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
Based on the idea that every person, regardless of their actual sexual orientation, must perform "straightness" in order to conform to society, and curb homophobia. Some people perform so much, and so well, that they do not know what their actual sexual orientation is.
What is compulsory heterosexuality?
White supremacist ideology is maintained through this type of apparatus, which uses institutions like education, religion, and the media to condition the masses into, often unknowingly, supporting its ideologies.
What is an ideological state apparatus?
What is cultural lag?
When a religion has complete control over all aspects of a society, it is this.
What is a church/ecclesia?
A person interested in studying how different communities understand and react to the word "welfare" would be using this kind of theoretical framework.
A father who praises his daughter because she is into sports like football and boxing, but looks down on his son who is interested in gymnastics can be said to have this kind of bias.
What is androcentrism?
If someone says "you talk about race too much; everything is about race nowadays. You can't say anything anymore!" They are using this framework of colorblind racism.
What is minimization?
Toys for Tots, a non-profit run by the Marines to give gifts to disadvantaged children, is this kind of social movement.
An item with no sacred meaning.
What is a profane object?