Simmel and Veblen
To treat something real and more concrete than it actually is. Give an example.
What is Reify?
The process in which the concept of race is created and attached to a particular group of people
What is Racialization?
The 4 types of action systems
What is Behavioral organism, personality, social and cultural?
What is social stratification?
Type of system that is self-making or self-generating; the system is responsible for it's own organization and development
What is an Autpoiesis system?
The social type defined by distance. One is neither too close or too far.
What is Simmel's the Stranger?
___ is a metaphor that describes the separation between blacks and whites while ____ is the feeling a black person has when they feel like they are being split in two. I.e American vs. Negro
What is the Veil?
What is double consciousness?
True/False: Debunking is a theory that seek a middle ground between trying to explain the entirety of the social world and a very minute portion of that world
If false, give the correct answer
What is false?
What is Middle Range Theory?
The 6 different type of class rankings
What is Capitalist, Upper middle class, middle class, working class, working poor class, and underclass?
Bureaucracy is an example of this type of differentiation
What is Segmentary differentiation?
Group size that is likely to exert more control due to high visibility
What is a Dyad?
The 4 stages of the act in order
What is Impluse, Perception, Manipulation and Consummation?
Observed consequences that helps a system adapt or adjust
Name the 4 types
What is a function?
Dysfunction, Non-Functions, Manifest functions, Latent Functions
The mass of people who stand below the proletariat in the capitalist system
What is a lumpenproletariat?
4 types of differentiation
What is segmentary, stratificatory, center-periphery, and functional differentiation?
Patterns of behavior that are composed of events and interactions with people in the social world.
i.e a conversation at a party
What is forms of interaction?
Examines the way racism is built into and reproduced through the institutions that organize everyday life. Stems from the field of law.
What is Critical Race Theory?
___ are intended positive consequences while ___ are unintended positive consequences
What are manifest and latent functions?
___ are unconscious interests that translate into objective role expectations while ___ are latent interests which people have become conscious about
What is Latent and Manifest interests?
The vertical differentiation according to rank or status in a system as a hierarchy i.e. inequality
What is Stratificatory differentiation?
True/False: Leisure consumption is the acquiring of luxury goods and services to display power, rather than to cover 'real' needs.
If false, give the correct answer
What is false?
What is Conspicuous consumption?
The self emerges into these 2 key stages in childhood. Name and define both stages.
What is the Play Stage? - The child plays at being someone else. I.e playing doctor
What is the Game Stage? - The child now includes others and they all take on different roles. I.e playing doctor, nurse, and patient. This allows children to function in organized groups
The 4 functional imperatives
*100 extra points for defining each*
What is Adaption? -System must adjust to it's environment and needs
What is Goal Attainment? -The need for a system to define and achieve it's goals
What is Integration? -Seek to regulate interrelationship of its component parts
What is Latency? -The need for a system to furnish, maintain and renew the motivation of individuals
___ consists of a number of individuals who occupy positions that have the same role interests
___ possesses not only common interests, but also a structure, goal, and personnel
___ engages in actions that lead to change out of concerns or interests
What is Quasi group, interest group and conflict group?
Luhman developed a theory that includes the concept of ____ as central to the systems because the system is able to work on itself; and ____, the fact that things could be different because social systems does not all function the same way
What is self-reference and contingency?