What is Sociology?
Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber
Who are the “three key thinkers of sociology”?
How to properly behave in school.
What is an example of secondary socialization?
Attributes that you’re born with, and that society judges you upon.
What are ascribed bases of stratification?
The theory that collective action as the most common outcome.
What is convergence theory?
Points at which people transition from one stage of life to the next.
What are life-course transitions?
The study of society as an interrelated web of connections.
What is network sociology?
Cultures where groups can see other like-minded individuals.
What are microcultures?
1.A historical narrative, generally associated with a place of origin.
2.Cultural customs, such as food, holiday celebrations, a language.
3.Symbols and distinctive styles of dress.
What are the three features of ethnicity?
Social behaviour that is contrary to one’s own beliefs but is exhibited to achieve rewards and avoid punishments.
What is compliance?
Moving in with a romantic partner.
What is cohabitation?
A religious institution.
What is an example of macrosociology?
He viewed humans as “social creatures,” who define themselves by their social interactions.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
The argument of inequality:
What is the argument that suggests?:
1.People need to be motivated to work hard and to take the jobs they’re best suited for.
2.Motivation means reward . . . and the real possibility of having significantly more or less reward.
3.Because there need to be people who are rewarded more than others, there needs to be inequality.
Using 123movies/putlockers/torrents to download movies.
What is an example of preemption?
Marriage
What is the 8th life-course transition?
The Chicago School
Which sociologists popularized the study of symbolic interactionism?
A sociologist who argued that people could free themselves from the capitalist system through bureaucracy instead of revolution.
Who was Max Weber?
Religion must: 1. serve a function in society, 2. must do something to help people work together happily and productively.
What is Emile Durkheim's belief on religion's function?
List the 5 causes of revolutions:
•An environmental catastrophe, like a drought or natural disaster (for example, the Rapanui of Easter Island who ran short of resources and fell into disastrous conflict with each other)
•An outside attack by an aggressive neighbor (for example, European nations in the Second World War)
•Internal fighting or disorganization among the people in the government (for example, the American Civil War)
•Too much economic inequality, which can cause the have-nots to rise up and take over (for example, the French Revolution)
•A cultural challenge to the justification for the system of government (for example, the Russian Revolution)
Death
What is the final stage in the life-course transition?
List the four principals of positivism:
•Knowledge of society can be gained through scientific investigation.
•And by observing the laws that govern social stability and change.
•Scientific understanding of these laws can bring about change.
•Science can be used to build a better world.
Max Weber
Who argued that in addition to economic inequalities, there were inequalities of political power and social structure that caused conflict?
List the seven steps (in order) of joining a cult:
• 1. Finding someone who is in a vulnerable or transitional state (at a crossroads in their life).
••2. Soft sell: The candidate has an initial meeting or talk with the recruiters.
• 3. The candidate is immersed into a new reality and separated from outside influences (ex. no television, movies, contact with friends, etc.)
4. The candidate’s #1 relationship is with the cult leader.
•5. The cult creates an external enemy.
•6. The candidate experiences peer pressure (ex. a strong push to become part of the cult).
• •7. The new member is brainwashed into serving a sociopathic narcissist.
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What is an example of a breaching experiment?
List the life-course transitions (in order):
✓ Birth
✓ Completing stages of education (grade school, high school, college, grad
school)
✓ The beginning of labor-force participation (in other words, getting a job)
✓ The start of dating and sexual activity
✓ Moving out of one’s parents’ household
✓ Childbearing
✓ Cohabitation (moving in with a romantic partner)
✓ Marriage
✓ Divorce
✓ Death