Sociology 101

Question 1

What is a social movement?

Answer 1

an organized effort by one or more groups in society to promote or resist social change through different types of engagement

Question 2

What is the women’s sufferage?

Answer 2

right to vote in political elections

Question 3

Types of Social movements

Answer 3

Revolutionary: establishing order by focusing on surpa -individual systems, overthrowing those in power

Reformative: partial change within a larger system

Redemptive: change the whole individual

Alternative: change a specific aspect of peoples behaviour

Question 4

Hacktivism

Answer 4

part of a larger brnach of cyberactivism, which manipute and deploys ICTs for a particular use

Question 5

Civil Disobedience

Answer 5

public and non-violent form of protest that is used to communicate opinions in opposition to government law and policy (marching, sit-ins, strikes)

Question 6

Resource Mobilization Theory

Answer 6

examines how social movements acquire, manage, and mobilize resources

Question 7

Machine Breaking

Answer 7

describing workers actions against machinery & social changes resulting industrialization

Background: large machinery introduced into industries, allowing employers to hire non-skilled workers on a lower wage, led to an increase in unemployed among highly skilled craftsmen

Question 8

Population Issues

Answer 8

Exponential Population Growth: death rates decrease but birth rates remain same

Overpopulation: available resources cannot sustain the number of people living there

Question 9

Population Theoretical Approches

Answer 9

Conflict Theory: population issues not because of overpopulation but because of unfair and harmful world wealth distribution

Functionalist: as world’s resources grow, population grows rapidly

Symbolic Interactionism: interested in meanings people attach to their own and other’s behavior; ways people in a given population structure their lives

Urbanization: population shift from rural to urban areas, growth and development of cities and lifestyles

Question 10

Low Fertility Concerns

Answer 10

due to the feminism push, more women are waiting to have kids if they even have kids at all. Their fertility rate is lowering as they get older.

There will be no one to care for the next generation

Question 11

Environmentalism terms

Answer 11

Environmental degradation: harmful change or distrubance to the environment

Natural environment: anything living or non on the Earth, not humans

Environmentalism: belief in and concern for the importance of the natural environment for a society

Sustainability: property of a system that allows for both its use and long-term regeneration

Sustainable development: development that meets peoples needs today but doesn’t compromise them in the future

Science: a human community of scientists, behaving according to its social norms

Question 12

Misinformation

Answer 12

false information spread unintentionally

Question 13

disinformation

Answer 13

false information spread intentionally

Question 14

Mass communication & media

Answer 14

mass communication: creation, repackaging and distribution of content on large scale through mass media

mass media: collection of media organization that communicate information to the public through a variety of media technologies

new media: media characterized by a decentralized process of content creation and distribution

Question 15

Frankfurt School

Answer 15

analyzed how mass-produced cultural goods led to standardization and uniformity in content, destroying individuality

Question 16

Good consumer

Answer 16

Zygmunt Bauman; consumes appropiately

Question 17

Prosumption

Answer 17

blend of production and consumption, process of customers playing a central role in design, development, and use of the end product

Question 18

Global North

Answer 18

regions characterized as wealthier, less inequality, and more politically stable
- citizenship premium

Question 19

Global South

Answer 19

regions characterized as low income, greater inequality, and politically unstable
- citizenship penalty

Question 20

Racism terms

Answer 20

Racism: Discrimination, prejudice, or antagonism directed against someone of a different ethnicities or racialized ground based on the belief that one’s own radicalized identity is superior

Institutional racism: a form of racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions

Racialization: categorizing people based on visible features

Ethnicity: belonging to a group of people bound together by national tradition

Question 21

Gabriel Tarde

Answer 21

3 laws
- close contact
- imitation of superiors by inferiors
- insertion