Exam #2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
What was Emile Durkheim’s goal for sociology
keep cell/society functioning optimally in the interest of social cohesion
Anomie
the condition of social disorder when a society false to provide the individual with guidance or social norms +
normlessness
ethics
moral guidance situated within community/society
the collective conscience of society…shared culture
social forces
overcome individual forces + direct, coerce, contain and control the society
structural functionalism
functions of certain elements in a society
sacred
what can’t be touched or must be handled in a particular way
profane
doesn’t hold a significance
society is like a
society is like a cell/organism where everything has its own kind of function, so if something is not operating accordingly, it is deviant
what does modernity and increasing division of labor/density of people cause ?
decrease of collective conscience due to specialization
influence of religion will weaken
shift to restorative justice
crime–necessary because it builds the collective conscious
what are the four types of suicide
egoistic, fatalistic, altruistic, anomic
egoistic
low integration, high regulation
fatalistic
low integration, high regulation
altruistic
high integration
anomic
low regulation, low integration
Durkheim and Dubois are of a kind in this way
contemporary sociologists concerned with collective conscious
respectability politics
Racecraft
Dubois: outsider, insider —worked for Penn perpetually on the outside, wasn’t rebered and couldn’t find work; scholar denied, has all the education
- is mot raised around other black people but “throws his lot in with them”
Durkheim: insider, outsider–revered in France but couldn’t really speak on being Jewish or things related to the Dreyfus Affair
- defends anti-semitism, jewish people’s behaviors make antisemitism warranted or understandable and this is just a part of French nationalism–need for a scapegoat
positionality affects their perspective
The Philadelphia Negro
very first ethnographic study
does this for the purpose of showing that the stereotype and ideology surrounding black work ethic, poverty and the social black ills people experience are not their fault but due to societal ills
micro level–individual
Claude Steele, Whistling Vivaldi– stereotype threat
connection to double consciousness: standardized testing –ways that rhetoric and ideology affect performance, you could undermine the highest performing students because pressure undermines performance, weight of historical precedent –you see yourself through the eyes of your oppressor creating dissonance
meso level–institutions
role of race in slavery about the creation of identity of white workers, who want to preserve privilege + benefits
Bacons Rebellion: creates a rebellion with white indentured servants and black slaves: to make sure this didn’t happen was by priveleging white people, police power iover blacks, favoring in employment, crearing a notion of freedom that was based on access
settling for the psychological wage
macro level–global
Howard Wynett: nature of modernity, white supremacy is not something that was just invented in modern times but its a constitute element of modernity which involves the development of the nation state, which is about hoarding resources and labor but also a form of nationalism that fosters the pillaging of other nations= gives rise in the capitalist era
What interferes with class consciousness
race is the agent of social control–fear of being thought of as black-like
