Exam 2 People To Know Flashcards
Travis Hirschi
Social control theory
Thostein Veblen
Described the class habits of Americans as conspicuous consumption meaning the ostentatious display of goods to define ones social status.
W I Thomas
Differential association theory
Louis Wirth
1920s observed Chicago and argued that the city was a center of distant, cold interpersonal interaction
Herbert Gans
Studied Boston in the late 1950s and concluded that many city residents develop strong loyalties to others characterized by a sense of community.
Georg simmel
Argued that urban living caused people to be uncaring of the many around them.
Kurgan Habermas
Along with Marx contended that the personal feelings of helplessness that accompany modernization are due to inequalities and are inevitable products of the capitalistic system.
Herbert Marcuse
Argues that modernized society fails to meet the basic needs of people, among them the need for a fulfilling identity.
Max Weber
Contented life chances theory
Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro
Sedimentation of racial inequality- wealth accumulates over time
Max Weber dimensions of society
Class (economic)
Status (prestige/cultural)
Party (power)
William Julius Wilson
Analyst of poverty and racial inequality wrote “the ultimate basis for current racial tension is the deleterious effect of basic structural changes in the modern American economy on Black and White lower income groups, changes that include uneven economic growth, increasing technology and automation, industry relocation and labor market segmentation”
Immanuel Wallerstein
World systems theory
Wrote “The Modern World System 1 and 2”
Cornel West
Race matters and still matters a lot
Lawrence BoBp
Such post racial dreams must confront American realities
Nell Painter
Historian who contributed to the development of the new field of “whiteness studies”in demonstrating the racial formation and social construction aspect of defining who is white.
Oliver and Shapiro
The blacks were the first in and the last out
William Julius Wilson
Class conflict sociologist
Class and changes in the eco economic structure are sometimes more important than race in shaping life chances of different group.
Williams julius Wilson
Attributes the causes of the urban underclass to economic and social structural deficits in society. He rejects culture of poverty
Bruce Western and Jeffrey Reiman
Noted that the prison system in the United States is in effect designed to train and socialize prisoners into a career of secondary deviance and to display to the public that crime is a threat primarily from the poor
Debra Gimlin
Argues that bodies are the surface on which prevailing rules of a culture are written.
Kathleen Gerson
Research finds that most young adults want a lifelong partner and shared responsibilities for work and family. She also found that men would fall back on traditional if balence didn’t work whereas women would rather be self reliant.
Roe vs wade
Court let abortion be legal under certain circumstances
__ to ____ % of college women experience acquaintance rape
15
20
