Chapter 6 Flashcards
When humans lived in small groups
300,000 years ago
Foragers ate and worked…
Plants and animals, and worked for a couple hours a day
Foragers obeyed…
gods, spirits
Premodern thought
Belief in gods, and committed to traditions
Invented agriculture…
10,000 years ago, helped for larger populations
Nation States
A lot of land governed/ controlled by a power (and can become a citizen)
Modern thought
A believe in science, to make societies and improve life
Max Weber years alive
(1864-1920)
Max Weber lived in and about him..
Germany, first sociologist of religion
Rationalization
Using reason to make simple life/ living
Max Weber and comparative Sociology
Gave first ideas to start/ form comparative sociology
Organized religion is given by
Modern times
Max Weber compared what groups
Protestants and Catholics
Calvinists
Value money
Catholics
Do not value money
Comparative Sociology
Comparing two or more cases
Case
A thing of interest
Social Organizations
Groups working together for a company/ goal
Divisions of Labor
Dividing up the task for one goal
Bureaucracies
Rules of groups/ companies
George Ritzer
100 years after Weber, argued rationalization getting bigger
McDonalds is example of
Rationalization
Mcdonalds maximized:
3 important things: Efficiency, Predictability, and Calculability
McDonaldization
Making life easy
Post-modern
Rejection of one truth, theres many part truths (religion and science)
Jean Bautrillard
Said electronics destroyed our relationship with the past -> empty world. People are becoming judged by media images
Modern organization
Strict, bureaucracies violate rules our type of thinking now (postmodern thinking)
Gig work
Short-term jobs
Social institutions
patterns of interacting, fulfills human need
Institutionalized areas
Family - born into
Education - trains to work
Economy - regulates goods and services
Law - set formal rules
State - entire society
Institutional reliance
We stay in the institution we are in, they help us
Ideologies
Shared ideas about how human live should be organized
Social Structure
All social institutions we live in
Structural Position
Our lives determine our opportunities
Types of suicide
Egotistic, Altruistic, Fatalistic, Anomic
Egotistic
Socially we are isolated
Altruistic
People become the group (not themselves)
Fatalistic
Blocked by institutions/ opportunities
Anomic
Makes person not special/ meaningless
Institutional Discrimination
Institution gives disadvantage to some
Social Stratification
Sorting social groups in order
