Core Sociological Concepts
This type of socialization ends once the generalized other has been internalized.
What is primary?
Marx explained the history of "civilized" societies in terms of the conflict between those who control production, the bourgeoisie, and those who produce the goods or services in society, the ______.
What is proletariat?
The three types of capital discussed by Bourdieu include Social, Economic, and _____.
What is Cultural?
Lareau describes two different schools in her book to highlight the economic and class differences inherent in each setting. The names of these two schools are ____ and _____ _______. (Unequal Childhoods)
What are Swan and Lower Richmond?
Families, the educational system, religion, government, the economy, and health care are all types of social __________.
What are institutions?
Melissa attended a Sporting KC soccer game with a friend last Friday. Melissa wasn’t a big fan of sports or soccer, typically, but as she watched the game, listened to the fans sing and chant, she couldn’t help but find herself feeling very connected to the team and excited for them to score the next goal. Melissa was experiencing what Durkheim would call the phenomenon of _________ ____________.
What is collective effervescence?
The utilization of one form of capital in order to gain a different form of capital is known as capital ____________.
What is conversion?
A style of parenting marked by a parent's attempts to foster their child's talents by incorporating organized activities in their children's lives. (Unequal Childhoods)
What is concerted cultivation?
The term for an idea or concept that seems to be a natural and unquestioned fact, but is just a product of social invention
What is a social construct?
A tribe in a South American jungle consists of about two dozen families who hunt and gather, care for children, and perform daily spiritual rituals to serve the needs of the community. All of the members of this tribe perform these same duties for the benefit of the whole group. According to Durkheim, this society is connected by ____________ solidarity.
What is mechanical?
Many people often gain social status through their display of knowledge in various American
sports. If parents of a child pay for sports lessons in hopes that their child will gain friendships
through the sport, Bourdieu would say they're converting their _____ capital to _____ capital.
What is Economic to Social?
McIntosh states in her article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack that people who possess this invisible advantage have the freedom and luxury to ignore or deny that racial inequality is a reality. This invisible advantage is known as _________ power.
What is unearned?
A person dealing with homelessness in Lawrence would be having a ____ _____, whereas high homelessness
rates in the state of Kansas would be considered a ______ ___. (Sociological Imagination)
What is personal trouble, public issue?
Durkheim believed that crime serves an important function in our society in that it reaffirms our __________ __________.
What is collective conscience?
Marx defines the base as the social relations between people who create and produce materials that are eventually put up for sale or exchange. From the base comes a ________ in which laws, politics, religion and literature legitimize the power of the social classes that are formed from the efforts of the base.
What is superstructure?
When somebody asks you to "______ ____ _________" they are asking you to pause and consider how the advantages you've had in life are contributing to your opinions and actions, and how the lack of disadvantages in certain areas is keeping you from fully understanding the struggles others are facing and may in fact be contributing to those struggles. (Oluo's article)
What is check your privilege?
_________ occurs when preexisting roles, identities, and norms are changed in a new environment, such as when joining the military or going to prison.
What is resocialization?
Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and Adam Lanza were all young men who felt separated from society and their peers. They each committed mass school shootings before committing suicide. According to Durkheim, their suicides would be considered this type of suicide.
What is egoistic?
In Marx’s stages of history, this social system arises after Feudalism.
What is capitalism?
A foundation of American ideology that has been criticized as a myth. The sentiment behind this ideology is that a person can rise above their social-economic class and achieve any goal they have in mind as long as they work hard enough. (McIntosh's article)
What is meritocracy?