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He is the best Sociology teacher you know of.
Who is Mr Standley?
The condition of being dependant to a particular substance, thing, or activity, and unable to stop without adverse effects. Like an iPhone!
What is addiction?
Featured in "Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy", this popular shopping website was accused of causing environmental damage from the fallout of overconsumption.
What is Amazon?
Name one of the sociological concepts that were covered in The Truman Show.
What are ____?
(Roles. Family. Norms. Greed. Deviation. Consumerism and more...)
The priority of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control over quality. Based on a popular restaurant
What is MCDONALDIZATION?
He's the lead actor in The Truman Show.
Who is Jim Carrey?
The action of departing from an established norm or accepted standard.
What is deviate?
This woman, the mother of a popular YouTube star, paid $1.85 million to 11 teen content creators who sued her for abuse and exploitation.
Who is Tiffany Smith?
A form of communication designed to influence and persuade people's opinions, beliefs, or behavior.
What is propaganda?
Making increasingly complex products available to surpass consumers needs
What is OVER-CUSTOMIZATION?
He used dogs and bells to study behavior
Who is Pavlov?
It's like an imaginary gauge in your mind that helps you keep track of how accepted you feel
What is the Sociometer?
This system of food service, invented by the McDonald brothers, and adopted by Ray Kroc, revolutionized the fast food business.
What is The Spee-dee system?
A phenomenon where individuals change their behavior when they are aware they are being observed
What is the Hawthorne effect?
The process by which the world's economies, cultures, and populations become increasingly integrated
What is GLOBALIZATION?
The winningest Female cheese rolling champion.
Who is Florence "Flo" Early?
One-sided relationships, typically with celebrities or media figures, where the individual feels a sense of connection and intimacy despite the lack of reciprocal interaction
What are ParaSocial Relationships?
She was an aspiring Van Life vlogger who was murdered by her abusive boyfriend and then his parents hid him from the police.
Who was Gabby Petito?
What is planned obsolescence?
When wealthier residents replace lower-income residents in an urban neighborhood
What is GENTRIFICATION?
Name one of the 3 founding fathers of Sociology.
Who are Max Weber, Karl Marx, or Emile Durkheim?
A group of people, like a neighborhood or school, who live in the same area and have something in common
What is Community?
The first one of these popular casual-dining restaurants was opened in Florida in 1982 by the General Mills Company (Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Annie's).
What is Olive Garden?
Making increasingly complex products available to surpass consumers needs, leaving consumers unsatisfied by the stress of too many choices.
What is OVER-CUSTOMIZATION?
Destruction of nature driven by urban expansion and development
What is URBAN DEFORESTATION?