Essay Questions Flashcards
How would a sociologist apply their sociological imagination to understand the heroin crisis in Keene? Define cultural and structural forces and agency before applying the terms
Sociological imagination: Enables someone to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external career of lots of people
Cultural forces:
Structural forces:
Compare and contrast the functional and conflict perspective on social inequality
Functional perspective: based on the assumptions that society that society is a stable, orderly system. Characterized by societal consensus, where the majority of people share a common value, belief, and behavioral expectations.
Conflict perspective: groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle to control scarce resources. Conflict may take form in politics, litigation, negotiation, or family discussions about financial matters.
Social inequality:
Describe and assess concerted cultivation and natural growth approaches to parenting. Relate these different approaches to “unequal childhoods”
Concerted cultivation: most middle class parents allow their children to build opportunities, negotiate and navigate in social interactions in a way that opens more doors of opportunity and leads to greater rewards. Natural growth: Dependence on institutions, parents allow child to grow at their own rate, emerging sense of constraint.
What societal pressures have families faced over the last several decades?
OUR KIDS & pp; WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS
What social forces do you think shape an American child’s likelihood of being unsuccessful in in school?
Cultural capital: the tastes, styles, habits, disappointments, hobbies, and language of elites.
Provide criticisms of the notion that there is biological basis for race classification systems
Race is anything but natural. In reality, they’re a reflection of social, economic, and political forces that shape these socially constructed categories, not biology. Ex: Barack Obama.
Apply the concepts of total institution and re-socialization to the basis training of marines, providing specific examples
CH. 9 SAGE
How did Rosenhan’s study of being sane in insane places support labeling theory?
CH. 10 SAGE
Why does gender gap in wage exist in the U.S.?
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