Sociological Theories 101
This theorist believed that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat drives social change.
Who is Karl Marx?
These are rules or expectations guiding how members of a culture should behave in specific situations.
What are norms?
This movement, beginning with the death of George Floyd, sparked a global conversation about police power and racial justice.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This historical period marked the shift from agrarian to industrial societies.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This Toronto "street," located just south of Queen West, is known for its murals and shows how art can express social identity.
What is Graffiti Alley?
This sociological perspective sees society as a system of parts working together to maintain stability.
What is Functionalism?
This the term for the things and concepts a society's culture deems important and desirable.
What are values?
The "invisible barrier" preventing women from reaching top-level positions.
What is the glass ceiling?
This 20th-century movement fought to end racial segregation and secure legal equality in the U.S.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This west-end neighbourhood has become a case study in gentrification and housing inequality.
What is Parkdale?
This sociologist is known as the "father of sociology" and studied social order and solidarity.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This global music phenomenon, featuring groups like BTS, shows how Korean culture has reshaped global pop.
What is K-Pop?
Sociologists use this term to describe the uneven distribution distribution of wealth, power, and privilege across groups.
What is social stratification?
The 1918 success of this movement gave women in Canada the right to vote.
What is the women's suffrage movement?
The arrival of new immigrants to Toronto every year demonstrates this "multi-" faceted process of cultural blending.
What is multiculturalism?
This perspective focuses on small-scale interactions and how meaning is created through symbols.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Slang like "fanum tax" and "skibidi" baffle many; it's associated with this generation, a name that unfittingly follows Gen Z.
What is Gen Alpha?
A system where effort and hard work supposedly determine success, though structural inequalities often persist.
What is meritocracy?
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolized the end of this global ideological conflict.
What is the Cold War?
This wealthy Toronto neighbourhood, home to Drake, exemplifies the stark inequality and social stratification in the city.
What is the Bridle Path?
His early sociological studies in Philadelphia laid the foundation for race-conflict theory.
Who is WEB DuBois?
Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it's paired with "the" in Gen Z slang for a dating turnoff.
What is ick?
This is the process by which companies move jobs overseas to cut costs.
What is outsourcing?
This 2010s movement began in Tunisia and spread across the Middle East, showing the power of digital media in revolution.
What is the Arab Spring?
The influx of young professionals into working-class areas like Leslieville and Parkdale exemplifies this kind of urban transformation.
What is gentrification?