Final Flashcards
(19 cards)
Deindividuation
- Distancing people from their social roles
- Temporary/ permanent loss of self
- Can happen in riots, total institutions, rites of passage
Socialization
- Process of passing societies norms/ culture to new person
- As child learn appropriate behavior for your society
- As immigrant learn the new behavior that is appropriate
Resocialization
- Reshaping values/ behaviors to the new culture/ society you are in
- Like socialization but not for babies, happens when moving countries, jobs, states, military
Total Institutions
- Places where you give up your control
- Agree to become deindividuated for a purpose
- Military breaks ya down & builds you back up
- Prison, Treatment facilities
Deindividuation process
- separation from outside world
- Liminality removing ambiguity
- take away choices
- sameness (being taught rights/responsibilities)
- Heaven’s Gate women dressed like men
Types of Deindividuation
- Rights of passage
- religious groups
- riots
Ritual
- Repetitive
- Stylized
- Sequential
- Nonordinary
- Symbolic actions that reinforce the collective
Rites of Passage
- Identifies change from one status to a new within culture
- Formalized ceremony that marks change
- Society recognizes adult status of young members
Victor Turner
-Studied Ndembo tribe in Africa
-Interesting rights of passage
-Tribes status change was separation, liminality, rein corporation with new status
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Liminality
- Whole reason rites of passage exist & deindividuation
- A quality of ambiguity/ disorientation
Reincorporation
- Coming back into society as new status
- Acting with the norms of new status/ expectations
Cicatrization
- Act of scaring in art form
- Cutting skin and filling with ash to cause scaring
Structure & Anti-Structure
- Turner says structure is based on emphasizing status, differences
- Anti-structure is the opposite focuses on sameness, not class/ status, being essentially identical
- Communitas the oneness of humanity
Anti-structure social movements
- counter culture movements, vietnam war time
- 60’s was about unisexuality (being polymorphic)
- Was about going against status bound social orders
Social Stratificaiton
- Division of people by money, occupation, race creating a hierarchy
- Giving more power, status, class to certain groups
Open system of stratification
- Lines between classes are less well defined
- Can move between the layers of the social cake more easily
- Part of class system where achieved status is more important than ascribed status
Closed system of stratification
- Strict lines between classes, about keeping others out
- Mobility is almost impossible
- Caste system is very closed your ascribed status is the most important
Caste System
4 Varnas
-Brahman (mouthpiece of the gods, monks, teachers)
-Kshatriya (warriors)
-Viashya (farmers)
-Shudra (shopkeepers, farmers, artisans)
-Untouchables (polluted, dealt with garbage & ambiguois substances)
Within each Varna are thousands of Jati
Social Mobility
In open systems of stratification it’s easier for social mobility
-Within american society the top layers are the most likely for social mobility (not the poor)
