What term defines the “totality of beliefs” held by a group?
What is collective conscience?
100
The three kinds of capital.
What are social, economic, cultural?
100
How likely is it for someone in the United States to move up the social ladder?
What is:
Not very likely; in the class social system, although this is possible, very few people experience upward mobility.
100
Three examples of how a social network can affect our health.
What is smoking, drinking, STDs, loneliness, happiness, obesity, etc.?
100
This term describes someone who owns the means of production.
What is bourgeoisie?
200
The difference between mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity.
What is:
Mechanical - Same skills create solidarity
Organic - Heterogeneity of skills creates solidarity
200
Define cultural capital.
What is: The degree to which one knows the dominant social code?
200
From Connected, the concept of being at the center of one’s social network describes which type of capital?
What is social capital?
200
The definition of hyperdyadic spread.
What is: The tendency of effects to spread a primary relationship?
200
According to Karl Marx, what is the result of the division of labor in society upon individual people?
What is alienation?
300
The four types of suicide as studied by Durkheim.
What is egoistic, altruistic, fatalistic, anomic?
300
A term defined as a “sneaky kind of power that works by getting people to ‘buy into’ criteria of their own oppression.”
What is cultural hegemony?
300
According to Durkheim, individuals on the periphery of a social network may experience what?
What is anomie?
300
Define transitivity.
What is:
Interconnectedness of your network connections (“when all those involved know each other”)
p. 17 (ish)?
300
What is Marx’s theory of culture and how does it work?
What is:
Base determines superstructure; economic relationships determine our everyday lives.
400
The sociological tradition that Durkheim comes from.
What is (structural) functionalism?
400
Bourdieu argues that high/low status objects/practices have no inherent properties that make them high/low status. This is why Dr. Donovan refers to him as __________
What is: The Anti-Snob?
400
According to Marx’s labor theory of value, how is capitalism inherently exploitative?
What is:
Capitalists' profits are taken from their workers?
400
Why do Christakis and Fowler argue that we should study sexual networks?
What is:
They demonstrates the emergent properties of networks and can be traced in ways that don’t make sense at the individual level?
400
This drives major historical change.
What is conflict?
500
The two types of suicide present in the Jonestown murder/suicide.
What are altruistic and fatalistic?
500
Give an example of someone who has a low cultural capital and a high economic capital.
What are ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES!
500
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" is a quote by this social theorist.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
The five rules of social networks according to Christakis and Fowler.
What is:
(1) We shape our network
(2) Our networks shape us
(3) Our friends affect us
(4) Our friends’ friends affect us
(5) The network has a life of its own
500
According to Karl Marx, this will be the final stage of historical development.