Block III

Question 1

Social Darwinism

Answer 1

1st phase of information society
Jobs based on information
Unemployment + social exclusion
Fragmentation of jobs and workers
Friedman, Naisbitt, Castells

Question 2

Information society for everyone

Answer 2

2nd phase of information society
Political growth for everyone
Informational capitalism
Increase in temporary work
Possibilities for social movements
Open access, data and science

Question 3

Risk society

Answer 3

Beck
Unequal distribution of risks
Increasing risk, feeling of risk, reflexivity

Question 4

Reflexivity (Beck)

Answer 4

Lack of knowledge, uncertainty
“Me”

Question 5

Reflexivity (Giddens)

Answer 5

Having knowledge of manufactured risks
Democratization of democracy, beyond left and right

Question 6

Disenchantment

Answer 6

Beck
Crisis of meaning

Question 7

Individualization

Answer 7

Beck
Building own biographies with others

Question 8

De-monopolization of expert knowledge

Answer 8

Beck
Abandoning instrumental rationality
Experts vs. Lay people

Question 9

De-traditionalization

Answer 9

Lash
End of traditional authorities

Question 10

Sub-politics

Answer 10

Beck
Transforming society from below

Question 11

Cosmopolitanism

Answer 11

Beck
Sub-politics beyond nation-state
Sociology beyond methodological nationalism

Question 12

Nine orientations for sociologies that scientists and citizens like and use

Answer 12

1. Dialogue 2. improvement 3. Truth 4. Goodness 5. Beauty 6. Gender 7. Cultures 8. Universal 9. Forward-looking

Question 13

Instrumental rationality

Answer 13

Instrumental use of knowledge
Use according to ends

Question 14

Communicative rationality

Answer 14

Use of knowledge to understand each other and reach agreements

Question 15

Communicative action

Answer 15

Grounded in communicative rationality
Based on validity claims
Ilocutionary use of language
Oriented to reach agreements

Question 16

Power claims

Answer 16

To enforce/impose an action

Question 17

Validity claims

Answer 17

To reach agreements

Question 18

Theoretical discourse

Answer 18

Is something truth of false

Question 19

Practical discourse

Answer 19

Is something good or bad
Rightness

Question 20

Aesthetic criticism

Answer 20

Is something beautiful or ugly
Standards of value

Question 21

Prelocutionary use of language

Answer 21

Non-explicit
To cause an effect on listener
Associated with instrumental rationality, teleological action and power claims

Question 22

Ilocutionary use of language

Answer 22

Explicitly in aims
Will to reach understanding
Associated with communicative rationality, communicative action and validity claims

Question 23

Ilocutionary use of language

Answer 23

Explicitly in aims
Will to reach understanding
Associated with communicative rationality, communicative action and validity claims

Question 24

1st wave feminism

Answer 24

Equal rights
Homogenization
Rejection of femininity

Question 25

Feminism of difference

Answer 25

2nd wave feminism
Postmodernism
Difference
Equal value of identities
Different movements
Judith Butler, Luce Iragay
Defending feminine values and transgressions

Question 26

3rd wave feminism

Answer 26

Intersectionality
Questioning heteronormativity

Question 27

Queer theory

Answer 27

Gender trouble
Subversion of identity
Breaking binary categories

Question 28

Dialogic feminism

Answer 28

Dual theories of society
Sheila Benhabib, Judith Butler, Lydia Puigvert
Radicalization of modernity principles
“Other women”

Question 29

Methodological individualism

Answer 29

Social change and institutions are the result of individuals’ actions
Opportunities and preferences

Question 30

Rational choice

Answer 30

People do what will provide them with the best global outcome when they face different alternative action

Question 31

Deliberation

Answer 31

Normatively regulated negotiation to reach consensus

Question 32

Public sociology

Answer 32

Burawoy
Sociology code of ethics
Division of sociological labour