Basic Terms Flashcards
Beloit Mindset Millennial
small, close families; helicopter parents; direct and immediate access to information; sense of individualism; weaker sense of history; overwhelming schedules.
Michael Wesch
Disjunction between the way information is treated by schools and the expectations of contemporary students.
Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message – it’s not what is said but how it is said. The medium sets the pace of information consumption, thereby compelling people to keep up and leading to passive understandings.
Molten Hot
Web-based information that is highly packaged, tightly scripted, ready for instantaneous and large passive consumption. Ability to control the range of information coming in, but can only process parts of it at one time.
Molten Ice
Ice cold, because cyber media is immaterial; no material constraints and digital information can be changed instantly, manipulated endlessly by anyone who receives it. Highly interpretive, constructive and interactive. Recipient can create and recreate meaning; but the boundless possibilities can leave an individual feeling helplessly unable to grasp the infinite scope of such information.
Hot media
Film; cannot interact with the information to juxtapose or thoroughly engage oneself; entirely passive.
Cool media
comic books and written texts, require a more active audience in the creation of meaning; reader has the ability to control the pace of information.
Old School vs. New School
Professors realize millennials treat print as ancillary; “hard copies” provide deeper more critical approaches to information; large blocks of undisturbed concentrated time is vital to education; professors are realizing how easy digital media makes life.
Bloom
Vies for liberal education and is concerned about higher education’s failure to maintain a liberal education; concerned about social pressures that deflect students away from engaging with the questions central to a liberal education.
Arnold
“The pursuit of sweetness and light”; recommends culture as a solution as it is the pursuit of total perfection of matters which most concern us.
Web of social Relations
threads of the web of social relations extend well beyond an individual’s immediate life, they tie to each and every person on the planet into one network or another. Everyone is inescapably tied to, and acts within, various webs of social connection.
Psycho
Relates to C.W Mills The Sociological Imagination. Both feel their private lies are a series of traps, broad context of Phoenix yet must look into the private and personal lvel,
C.W Mills 5 Objectives
1) empower people to change the world
2) establish the classical tradition as the dominate orientation to sociology in North America (because classical tradition critically addressed fundamental social issues and proposed sweeping changes)
3) demonstrate the weakness of structural function position that prevailed (isolated aspecs of social life, too narrowly focused on the very specific)
4) criticize the overreliance on quantitative survey based research
5) instill the sociological imagination in the consciousness of all North Americans
Everyday Stocks of Knowledge
- natural attitude (Schutz), people naturally see themselves from their own personal perspectives, as individuals
- so accustomed to viewing the world from an individual’s perspective makes it difficult to adjust to sociological thinking.
Sociological Imagination
- quality of mind that allows one to grasp social context and apprehend the world critically
- much more complex than passively relying on taken for granted ideas, requires attention to broader social context
- think beyond person experience, moving beyond the individual and the psychological
- an understanding of one’s personal life as reflective in broader social/historical forces
- links personal issues to public matters
- intersection of personal biography, history and social structure
