Sociology Final Flashcards
(12 cards)
Deindividuation
term coined by Leon Festinger for a socio-psychological phenomenon, stemming from feelings of anonymity. interactionist view of explaining positve/negative deviance
Functionalism
predicated on the organismic view of society. social facts exist and persist to the extent that they are functional to the organism
Conflict Theory
- reject the organismic metaphor
- social facts exist and persist to the extent that they are useful for powerful groups
- there are different varieties of conflict theory based on the inequities prioritized
Symbolic Interactionism
- people do not only experience reality, they interpret it
- people are subjects not objects
Robert Merton
- American sociologist
- Functionalist
- Manifest vs Laten Functions
- Structural Strain Theory (Anomie)
Michelle Alexandr
Author of “The New Jim Crow” which argued that US drug laws represent a willful effort to use the law to maintain white supremacy after the Civil Rights movement.
James Wilson + George Kelling
- Broken Windows Theory which was controversially put into practive in NYC in the 1990s and 2000s.
- Interactionistic approach to a decrease in crime based on deindividuation
Broken Windows Theory
James Wilson + George Kelling’s argument that crime and violence are deeply linked to perceptions of public order and feelings of deindividuation. Interactionistic and situational explanation of the increase and decreases of deviance
Martin Gilens and Ben Page
political scientists that structured political influence in the US and found a clear connection with wealth
Weber’s Tri-Partite Model of Social Stratification
Weber argued that 3 factors tend to shape a persons “life chances” - aka, the place in a stratification system.
Class: Economic Power
Status: prestige/social honor
Party: group mentorship/political power
Social Stratification
Term used to describe the micro-level systems of structural/institutional inequalities that shape an individual’s access to social desirables (life-chances)
