Readings Flashcards
(40 cards)
Hochschild
human emotions are social and depend on the situation you are in and the people you are around
each culture provides us with prototypes (like different keys on a piano)
Durkheim Suicide
wanted to measure suicide as a rate depending on where the person loved
wanted to show that this rate varied systematically on variables of religion, family and income
Karl Marx
Society is based on the conflict between social classes
some individuals and groups have more power than others and that the struggle over power is a key element of social life
Melvin Kohn
how parental and social class shapes the values that parents encourage in their children
differences when comparing values emphasized by working class and middle class mothers
Herbert Blumer
symbolic interactionism and 3 main premises
1) humans act towards things based on meanings they assign to them
2) meaning is derived from social interactions
3) people use an interpretative process to understand and modify meaning
Charles Horton Cooley
looking glass self/ceiling
imagine how others see us, how others judge our appearance and refinance this appearance is based on how we interpret these judgements
Frank Furstenberg
coined the concept of early adulthood
Elijah Anderson
code of the streets, how living in certain neighbourhoods can impact behaviour and opportunities
Durkheim (Deviance, 4 Functions)
crime is necessary, functional and even good for society
1) affirms cultural norms and values
2) deviant acts helps individuals understand what is right/wrong
3)responding to deviance helps unite individuals in society
4) deviance encourages social change
Howard Becker
- studied marijuana use
social, rather than individual explanation for drug use labelled as deviant
strain theory
subcultural theory
learning theory
control theory
labeling theory
Thomas Picketty
real wealth is concentrated in very few families, who will keep getting richer unless war or revolution intervenes
Simon Kuznets
capitalism does not always generate income distribution
an economy develops, market first increases then decreases the overall economic inequality in society
Max Weber
3 main sources of conflict: economic, social and political
his theory focuses on the competition between social groups, rather than individuals, and attempts to explain social change and stability as a result of group conflict
Milanovic
immigration pressure is intimately related to high income gaps that exists within countries today
suggests that a solution is to help the growth of countries from where migrants are from
Thomas Principle
interpretation of a situation causes the action
Waters
ethnic identity of descendants of white European immigrants is flexible, symbolic, but not a definitive aspect of their identity
Berger and Luckmann
society is created by human interaction, which they call habitualization
Benedict Anderson
Imagined communities
socially, constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as a part of a group
Brewer
the empirical puzzle
certain characteristics are linked with men and women, however, does not deal with neutral roles but rules that are feminized/worker roles
Crenshaw and Collins
the intersection of regulating girls sexuality and bodies on a continum
Will Kymlika
greater demand for fairer terms of integration
Malinowski
Nuclear family
the optional/normal stance on family that maximizes labour division
Parsons
Structural functionalism
the theory that the structure of society is shaped by its function and social roles that individuals adopt are shaped by how these roles support society as a whole
Schalet
parents interpret the structures they are in and it impacts the way they parent their children
dutch/american parents
