Week 1ish
Give an example of a social issue (Mills)
Examples: poverty, war, addiction etc. Key point is they can be both structural and personal
Give an example of socialization (Wade)
Examples vary. Definition: a lifelong learning process by which we become members of our cultures
Give an example of social capital (Bourdieu)
Examples vary. Definition: The number of people we know and the resources they can offer us
Give an example of a front stage interaction (Goffman)
Examples vary. Definition: A public space in which we are aware of having an audience
Give an example of androcentrism (Wade)
Examples vary. Definition: The production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity.
Give an example of inverted quarantine (Szasz)
waterbottle gated community etc. definition: individualized acts of self-protection
Give an example of an imagined community (Anderson)
Defintion: An imagined group too large for all of their members to actually know one another
Give an example of cultural capital (Bourdieu)
Examples vary. Definition: Symbolic resources that communicate one’s social status.
Give an example of a backstage interaction (Goffman)
Examples vary. Definition: Private or semiprivate spaces where we can relax and rehearse
Describe one feature of modern fascism according to Herzog
Libidinal cruelty, sexy racism, afd's hatred towards disabled people
Give an example of a social fact (Wade)
Examples vary. Definition: Products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to any individual
Give an example of a social construct (Wade)
any
Give an example of a status hierarchy (Wade)
Answers vary. Status hierarchies are the advantages or disadvantages tied to identity or cultural capital
Give an example of impression management (Goffman)
Anything about trying to influence others' perception of us
Describe an example of doing gender (West and Zimmerman)
anything about gender as performance
Give an example of sociological sympathy (Wade)
Examples vary. Definition: Understanding the people you study on their own terms
Describe an example of how cultural change occurs according to Becker.
Examples vary.
Give an example of a folkway (Wade)
Loosely enforced norms (manners, saying 'bless you')
Give one example from "The White Space" of how racism plays out in interactions (E. Anderson)
many examples of antiblack racial stereotyping, being profiled, harassed etc.
Describe the basic methodology and findings of "The Chilly Climate" (Lee and McCabe)
Qualitative observations of classrooms, men speak more in classrooms
Briefly explain how mass media helped create the imagined community of the nation (B. Anderson)
Print capitalism > Linguistic homogeneity > ability to imagine oneself as part of a whole nation rather than a tribe or village
Give an example of anomie (Durkheim)
Examples vary. Anomie: social disintegration through individualism. Dukrheim's example: Higher Protestant suicide rates
Describe an example from one of the readings where social hierarchy is reinforced or reproduced through interaction.
Answers vary.
Define conservatism and give an example of it (Robin)
defense of hierarchy, having power, seeing it threatened taking it back
Explain how norms of interaction discourage women from labeling their workplace interactions as sexual harassment (Quinn)
Sanctions for "overreacting" to having chain yanked, precludes legal recourse