Quiz 4 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Empathy Walls (Hochschild)
-Obstacle to a deeper understanding of another person
-Can make you feel hostile/indifferent towards others
-Lack of humanity perception particularly in polarized conditions
Great Paradox (Hochschild)
-Extreme split between left & right political parties
-People impacted by pollution would vote against pollution conscious reform in favor of their party (self harm)
Keyhole Issue (Hochschild)
-Basis for other problems
-Central issue
-Environmental pollution for this author
Deep Story (Hochschild)
-Story that feels as if it were true
-Acts as an emotional basis that is not necessarily rational
-Based on perception/positionality
-Possessed by everyone and helps to understand long-simmering social conflicts
Hochschild Key Points
-Trump won because he gave people a sense of representation, empowered groups, Evangelicals now have great power as a minority
-Sociology: systematic impact on the individual, human society
-Rebel: presented environmental issues to Tea Party
-Team player: working hard, loyalty to principles, no government assistance
-Worshipper: childhood in poverty, traditional wife, faith-based gender roles, full-time mother (exceptionalism)
-Cowboy: self reliance, not always male
-Identity politics
-Visuals: line cutting
-Politics based on emotions, self interests
-Individual activism
-Racism on an individual level, DEI & system feels made up
New Gilded Age (Bartels)
-Resurgence of wealth inequality & political corruption
-Seeks to determine if equality is even possible with our extreme societal disparities
Bipartisan Agreement (Bartels)
-Government should do whatever possible to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed
-Poverty & Wealth Inequality are bad
-Both most responsive to resource heavy voters
-Education as a key to alleviating inequality
System Justification (Bartels)
Cling to idea that world is a just place to come to terms with uncontrollable circumstances
Responsiveness (Bartels)
Statistical association between constituents opinions and legislatures behaviors
Democracy by Coincidence (Bartels)
Ordinary citizens only getting their way when they happen to align with the positions of elite groups
Bartels Key Points
-Class disparities and values are central
-Plutocracy: wealthy favor less government spending & regulation
-Egalitarianism
-Pluralism: many ways people can participate in government
-Measurement of public attitudes
-White vs. Blue collar workers
-Economic growth over short period used to judge presidents (mytopic voters)
-Extremism contribution
-Both educated & uneducated contribute to perception distortion
-Culture of poverty stigma is negative
FABM (Roberts)
-Only acceptable form of contraception
-Teaching women about period cycles
Christian Nationalism (Roberts)
-American identity
-The U.S. has been chosen to carry out god’s will
-Must ensure your country reflects Christian values
Dominionism (Roberts)
-Duty of christians to run the country a certain way
-subdue attitude
-ties to colonialism
Roberts Key Ideas
-Class appeals
-Individual right to enjoy the blessings of liberty
-Socialism, communism, racism, trade wars, immigration as threats
-Stable, nuclear, married families
-Abortion= euthanasia
-Crisis of fatherlessness (promotes abuse by ‘boyfriends’)
-White nationalism
-Morality basis, equality is not the goal, god-less liberals make decisions for everyone
-Bible references: natural relations given up= form of sin
-Government bureaucrats have abused public trust
-Healthcare overconsumption
-Objective history, founding fathers
-Eliminate language (DEI)
-Cultural war
-Ideological redesign of America
