Week 1
________ trumps ___________.
Structure; Culture
What are the three parts of the Power Elite? (C.W. Mills)
Government, Business, Military
What is Separation?
When minority groups voluntarily choose to dissociate themselves from the majority
What is the Opiate of the Masses + Name the sociologist
Marx said that an opiate is something that kills pain and gets you high on species being without matter (religion)
What is Ideology (Habermas)
A counter-factual statement to keep a broken system in place
What is Species Being?
Actualizing your humanity through creative production in a material realm
What is a rebel?
rejects and replaces both societal goals and means with their own.
Which 3 groups were assimilated in the Triple Melting Pot Theory (W. Herberg)?
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews
What are religious producers? (Iannacone, Stark, Finke)
A student with an old textbook is not performing as well as the rest of the students who have the brand new textbook, but she can’t afford to get the book.
Relative Deprivation
What is the difference between stereotypes and generalizations?
Stereotypes = Gross exaggerations; Generalizations = Based on statistics/data (over 50%)
What is Conflict Theory and which sociologist came up with the concept?
When there is conflict between the owner of the means of production and a worker (Marx)
What is “Birds of Passage” Theory?
(M.Piore) immigrant groups that only intend to stay in America for short period of time before going back their home countries and therefore choosing not to assimilate/acculturate
Define Sacred, Profane, and Totems
Profane: A neutral object
Totems: An object that is delegated to have a special meaning
Sacred: A special realm that there is a unique sentiment through totems
A mom would usually buy her own groceries, but she ran out of money after paying rent for the month, and so she decides to steal a few things from target that she needs.
Situational Decision
What is social physics and who is the theorist?
Social Physics is the scientific study of society; Comte came up with the term and is often credited as the father of sociology
What theorist came up with Functionalism and what is the definition?
Parsons; Functionalism is when every individual does its part, every subsystem does its part, thus, there is order. These parts are indispensable
What happened in the year of 1921?
National origins quotas act: Only 3% of each ethnic group was allowed. Census was used to determine the numbers
What is the “New Age” Religion?
Finding power within yourself and creating the god that you want
What is Pneumatikos
it is a Greek word meaning “Spiritual”
What helps rationality become secularized?
Secularization
What is primary and secondary deviance?
primary deviance is the action that causes others to label one as deviant; secondary deviance is when an individual accepts the label of deviant and acts accordingly.
Define Noel Hypothesis
Contact between groups of unequal status results in harm for the disadvantaged group
What is the difference between a sect and a church?
A sect is a religious organization with high tension and cost, while a church is a religious organization with low tension and cost.
What is the Hegelian dialectic? (Hegel)
Ideas -> History
Thesis and antithesis refine into a synthesis which becomes a new thesis and on and on until a complete idea is finished
(Marx disagrees and says that matter, not ideas controls history)