Sociology 101
Mindless Consumption
FilmZ
The Boys
Don't Be Haitin'
100
A sociological approach that uses the scientific method and quantitative data to draw conclusions about human behavioral patterns.
What is positivism?
100
When you flash those thousand dollar sneakers, everyone will know you're the GOAT.
What is conspicuous consumerism?
100
What film first introduced American audiences to the zombie?
What is White Zombie?
100
The Big Daddy of Sociology
Who is Auguste Comte?
100
A diasporic religion that combined West African, Roman Catholic, and indigenous traditions, gods, and rituals.
What is vodou?
200
We can thank the society we're from for our behaviors, according to this sociological belief (which is also associated with positivism).
What is determinism?
200
When corporations make too much of product or commodity than society actually wants or needs.
What is overproduction?
200
Let's go to the Monroeville mall in this 1978 zombie movie.
Dawn of the Dead
200
He had a different interpretation of sociology's aims (...interpretivism).
Who is Max Weber?
200
This Harlem Renaissance writer saw the humanity in Haiti's zombie victims, and wrote about it in her ethnography.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
Another person or group who is seen as outside the norm and treated as such.
Who/what is "The Other."
300
The average American consumes as much daily digital content as the Statue of Liberty is tall, thanks to this behavior.
What is zombie scrolling syndrome?
300
This Pittsburgh filmmaker made a series of zombie films that reflected current events and trends in American society throughout the decades.
Who is George Romero?
300
He wasn't talking about aliens when he talked about being disconnected from labor and others.
Who is Karl Marx?
300
This American author first brought sensational (and problematic) tales about zombies, voodoo, and its Haitian practitioners to the U.S.
Who is William Seabrook?
400
This core American value puts one's own rights, needs,
and desires over the group’s.
What is individualism?
400
When tech companies are able to make so much money off your time.
What is the commodification of attention?
400
The death of this film's main character resonated with audiences not long after the assassination of MLK.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
400
This sociologist described anomie: a state of normlessness and lack of shared values when society breaks down.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
400
This revolutionary hero led Haitians to defeat their colonizers and helped launch the first independent Black republic of former slaves.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
500
BOO! This is your basic, instinctual survival mechanism speaking.
What is fight-or-flight?
500
Fast fashion is an example of this consumer behavioral pattern.
What is "acquire and discard"?
500
Communism and conformity are scarier than "pod people" in this Cold-War era film.
What is Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
500
Cultural alienation and dehumanization under colonialism demanded a course of decolonization, according to this Caribbean sociologist.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
500
It's a good thing zombies aren't really undead in Haiti... or else this revolutionary leader's massacre of the remaining colonizers would have been the real premise of White Zombie...
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?