Social Construction
A system of management characterized by hierarchical authority, specialized functions, and rigid adherence to rules and procedures
What is a Bureaucracy?
An economic system where the means of production is privately owned and profit is earned in competitive conditions.
What is Capitalism?
A behaviour or cue within society that is considered normal or common; used by social groups to determine what is normal and abnormal.
What is a Social Norm?
The ranking of people in any given society by class and status.
What is Social Stratification?
This term is used to describe an overblown attachment to or overdependence on technology.
What is Technosis?
This theorist believed that our identities are defined through work.
Who is Max Weber?
Members of the property owning class; people who own the means of production.
Who are the Bourgeoisie?
The theory that society is dominated by one ruling class and the ruling class’s ideas and beliefs are considered the cultural norm.
What is Cultural Hegemony?
The movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another.
What is Social Mobility?
This term is used to describe the disorientation brought on by technological advancements, creating a sense that the future has arrived prematurely.
What is Future Shock?
Weber used this term to describe a hierarchical system which is goal oriented, form of authority against unjust use of power.
What is the "Ideal Bureaucracy"?
The lower middle class including tradespeople, shop owners, and craftspeople.
Who are the Petit "Petty" Bourgeoisie?
This term is used to describe when people change their language or behaviour to conform to the dominant group/identity.
What is Code Switching?
A system which the boundaries between social positions are more flexible.
What is an Open System?
This term refers to the overwhelming rate of change in modern technological societies.
What is Hyperculture?
Weber used this term when referring to the rising dominance of rigid rules, rationalization, and efficiency-driven systems in modern life.
What is the "Iron Cage"?
The poorest class of people; the lower working-class wage-earners who sell their skills for money.
Gramsci believed that early education, instilling children with ideas, values, and morals was the best way to drive change, which he called by this term.
What is a “Quiet Revolution”?
A system with strict boundaries between different social positions.
Thorstein Veblen used this term to describe the view that social change is initiated by technology and not necessarily the individual.
What is Technological Determinism?
This type of change was used to describe how norms and ideals can change within a generation (ex. wealth vs. environment).
What is Intergenerational Differences?
This theory suggested that two commodities will trade for the same price if they embody the same amount of labour time.
What is Marx's Labour Theory of Value?
Gramsci believed that the state was divided into these two parts: one that rules through force and one that rules through consent.
What are the "Political Society" and the "Civil Society"?
This term is used to describe when we evaluate others based on their education and the job they have.
What is Occupational Prestige?
This Canadian social commentator used described technology as an extension of some human quality.
Who is Marshall McLuhan?