Institutions
The building blocks of society
What are social structures
Data collected at the individual-level.
What is micro-level data?
Theorists focused on the class structure, inequality, and alienation.
Who is Karl Marx?
When daily rules of society give some groups an unfair advantage.
What is inequality?
The setting in which people interact.
What is social context?
Data based on individuals.
micro-level data
Data collected at the organizational level.
What is meso-level?
Theorists from Texas who argued that there is a group, the power elite, who control society.
Who is C Wright Mills?
Concept that refers to the importance of who you know.
What is social capital?
If a classmate won the lottery, what will it create for us in the course?
What is social inequality?
Form organizations established by the state or corporations that set rules on how to address transnational challenges i.e. security, trade, and human rights.
What are global institutions or globalization?
Method based on the gathering of non-numerical data.
What is qualitative?
Theorist who argued that society is divided into a division of labor.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
A system that ranks individuals or groups into higher or lower positions.
What is a social hierarchy?
The process of attaching meaning to racial and ethnic groups that are products of history, power, culture, and structures.
What is racialization?
Type of institution that teach skills and share knowledge.
What is education?
Method based on hypothesis testing and the analysis of numerical data.
What are quantitative methods?
Theorists who is credited for developing the intersectionality framework.
Who is Kimberlee Crenshaw?
View that society has is not fixed or structural but subjective based on culture.
What is post-modernism?
The gap in what people own minus their debts.
What is the wealth gap?
An institution that creates, enforces, interprets, and administers laws and public safety.
What is the criminal justice system?
Data collected at multiple levels of analysis.
What is multi-level or hierarchial-level?
Theorists who argued that non-financial assets i.e. knowlege, education, and style, help people fit into society.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
When not only individuals are violent, but entire societies.
What is structural violence?
The idea that the research is part of the social system that they are studying.
What is reflexivity?