Families
A type of family consisting of parents and their children
What is the nuclear family
The court case which ruled that "separate by equal" schools are illegal, leading to the integration of public schools starting in Little Rock
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
The shift from family to market production
the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What are social determinants of health?
The sociological perspective that states that media is a tool of communication that helps shape our collective consciousness
What is functionalism?
What is anomie?
The study of societal-environmental interactions
What is environmental sociology?
When many people engage in organized collective action towards or against social change over time
What is a social movement?
One of the "functions" of marriage according (multiple possible) answers
►Economic support of spouses
►Transfer, preserve, or consolidate property, prestige, and power
►Emotional support
►Intimacy, companionship, belonging, etc.
►Socialization of children
►Raising children, parenting
►Control of sexuality
►defines and controls when and with whom
►Control of reproduction
►The basis for the institution of the family; defines the types of relationships where children should/could be born
The three components of triple segregation
What is race, class, and language
According to Marx, the two classes people are divided into under capitalism
What is the ownership class and the working class
According to the Ted Talk we watched in class, we need more healthcare providers who focus on this type of cause of illness and disease that starts where we work, live, and play
What is upstream causes?
The reason rates of anxiety and depression spike among young people, especially girls, from 2010 to 2015.
What is social media or the rise of a phone-based childhood?
The conception of deviance which states that the deviant is one to whom that label has been successfully applied
What is social constructionist?
A worldview that recognizes humans as part of the ecosystem and subject to ecological limits
What is the new ecological paradigm?
A type of power rooted in the fundamentally social nature of human life
What is interdependent power?
A reason that marriage rates are declining (multiple possible answers)
What is changing cultural norms, cost of living increases, women's economic independence
Sorting of students in the same school into different academic courses based on their perceived aptitude
What is tracking?
the factories, the tools, the buildings, the resource inputs (oil, wood) that allow capitalists to dominate industries while others have to sell the labor for wages
What is the means of production?
The number one reason that Americans do not sign up for healthcare and avoid going to the doctor
What is lack of affordability?
What a conflict theorist would say is the problem with the market-model of media
What is the prioritization of profit by attracting audiences to sell advertisements to
A theory that states that when people are exposed to goals but have structural impediments to achieving those goals, they feel strained and are more likely to commit acts of deviance
What is strain theory?
the idea that economic growth can be achieved without a corresponding increase in environmental impact or resource consumption
What is decoupling?
An example of a social movement that wasn't successful in achieving its goals that we discussed in class
What is Occupy Wall Street
A term for the phenomenon in which after a full day of work, women return home to perform household and child care duties
What is the second shift?
Why the author of the article "How Ivy League Admissions Broke America" believes that meritocratic admissions to elite universities are "rigged"?
What is the system sorts people by how rich their parents are
A reason that Marx's prediction that there would be a revolution against capitalism has failed to come true (multiple possible answers)
What is the rise of the middle class, distractions from media, political polarization, increasing quality of life, individualism
The United States is the only high-income country that does not do this.
A consequence of political polarization (multiple possible answers)
•Lack of social cohesion
•Decreased cross-party dialogue
•Distrust in institutions such as media, judiciary, or science
•Citizens with higher levels of affective polarization (hostility towards political opponents) are more likely to believe misinformation that supports their beliefs
•Political violence
A reason that we don't usually commit crimes, according to social control theory (multiple possible answers)
uAttachment: we care about what conforming others think of us
uCommitment: we don’t want to lose the benefits of conforming to society
uInvolvement: we are spending our time involved in conforming activities
uBelief: we are aware of, understand, and agree with the rules and norms of society
An infinite cycle of growth and production under capitalism
Organizational strength, strong leadership, people with standing, convincing framing, political opportunity, economic opportunity, cultural opportunity
Women do more domestic work than men even as their earning are increasing, health monitoring, emotional labor, social connection
Example of a factor contributing to educational inequality (multiple possible answers)
What is
Funding system – property taxes fund schools so poorer districts have less money for education
Race and class-based residential segregation lead to de facto school segregation
Structure of teaching occupation – teaching effectiveness is number 1 factor in how kids do in school
Language barriers
Income inequality – less access to resources and more responsibilities
The three problems with working for a living, according to Williams
Not everyone can get a job, not all jobs are good jobs, and inequality in the workplace
A reason that health care is more expensive in the United States that other countries (multiple possible answers)
What is we don't negotiate drug prices, high administrative costs, monopoly hospital systems, for-profit insurance companies
A possible explanation for the gender gap in democratic support among young men and young women in 2024
•Algorithms: Feed users more of what they engage with, often pulling men and women into different informational spheres
•Ex. Young man watches videos on “self-improvement” or “fitness” might start sees content from influencers in the “manosphere”
•Ex. Young women following mental health accounts might end up in spheres discusses feminism, social justice, or progressive politics
•Gendered online communities
•Reddit/YouTube/Discord trend male and have different subcultures than Tiktok/Tumblr/Instagram which trend female
•Misinformation and radicalization
•Young men are more likely to be pulled into far-right pipelines via certain content streams
•Young women more likely to be pulled into progressive feminist and anti-racist discourse
The type of crime that accounted for most of the increased prison population starting in the 1970s
What drug crimes, especially simple marijuana possession
The three paradigms of how we understand the environment in environmental sociology
What is the Dominant Western Worldview, Human Exceptionalism Paradigm, and New Ecological Paradigm?
A reason that the civil rights movement was successful (multiple possible answers)
•Grievance: “separate is not equal”
•Opportunities to organize: spatial proximity, Black churches
•Strong leader with standing: MLK
•Political opportunity: expansion of the Black vote; democratic president
•Triggering events: death of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks
•Framing: discrimination as a violation of human rights and American values
•Tactics: sustained boycotts, mass mobilization, nonviolent (and violent) direct action