Chapter 6

Question 1

When humans lived in small groups

Answer 1

300,000 years ago

Question 2

Foragers ate and worked…

Answer 2

Plants and animals, and worked for a couple hours a day

Question 3

Foragers obeyed…

Answer 3

gods, spirits

Question 4

Premodern thought

Answer 4

Belief in gods, and committed to traditions

Question 5

Invented agriculture…

Answer 5

10,000 years ago, helped for larger populations

Question 6

Nation States

Answer 6

A lot of land governed/ controlled by a power (and can become a citizen)

Question 7

Modern thought

Answer 7

A believe in science, to make societies and improve life

Question 8

Max Weber years alive

Answer 8

(1864-1920)

Question 9

Max Weber lived in and about him..

Answer 9

Germany, first sociologist of religion

Question 10

Rationalization

Answer 10

Using reason to make simple life/ living

Question 11

Max Weber and comparative Sociology

Answer 11

Gave first ideas to start/ form comparative sociology

Question 12

Organized religion is given by

Answer 12

Modern times

Question 13

Max Weber compared what groups

Answer 13

Protestants and Catholics

Question 14

Calvinists

Answer 14

Value money

Question 15

Catholics

Answer 15

Do not value money

Question 16

Comparative Sociology

Answer 16

Comparing two or more cases

Question 17

Case

Answer 17

A thing of interest

Question 18

Social Organizations

Answer 18

Groups working together for a company/ goal

Question 19

Divisions of Labor

Answer 19

Dividing up the task for one goal

Question 20

Bureaucracies

Answer 20

Rules of groups/ companies

Question 21

George Ritzer

Answer 21

100 years after Weber, argued rationalization getting bigger

Question 22

McDonalds is example of

Answer 22

Rationalization

Question 23

Mcdonalds maximized:

Answer 23

3 important things: Efficiency, Predictability, and Calculability

Question 24

McDonaldization

Answer 24

Making life easy

Question 25

Post-modern

Answer 25

Rejection of one truth, theres many part truths (religion and science)

Question 26

Jean Bautrillard

Answer 26

Said electronics destroyed our relationship with the past -> empty world. People are becoming judged by media images

Question 27

Modern organization

Answer 27

Strict, bureaucracies violate rules our type of thinking now (postmodern thinking)

Question 28

Gig work

Answer 28

Short-term jobs

Question 29

Social institutions

Answer 29

patterns of interacting, fulfills human need

Question 30

Institutionalized areas

Answer 30

Family - born into
Education - trains to work
Economy - regulates goods and services
Law - set formal rules
State - entire society

Question 31

Institutional reliance

Answer 31

We stay in the institution we are in, they help us

Question 32

Ideologies

Answer 32

Shared ideas about how human live should be organized

Question 33

Social Structure

Answer 33

All social institutions we live in

Question 34

Structural Position

Answer 34

Our lives determine our opportunities

Question 35

Types of suicide

Answer 35

Egotistic, Altruistic, Fatalistic, Anomic

Question 36

Egotistic

Answer 36

Socially we are isolated

Question 37

Altruistic

Answer 37

People become the group (not themselves)

Question 38

Fatalistic

Answer 38

Blocked by institutions/ opportunities

Question 39

Anomic

Answer 39

Makes person not special/ meaningless

Question 40

Institutional Discrimination

Answer 40

Institution gives disadvantage to some

Question 41

Social Stratification

Answer 41

Sorting social groups in order