final Flashcards
industrialization
segregation of work from private life
Secularization
non-religious, disassociating something from religious ties
Marxian theory
Opium of the people - religion acts strictly to keep those who are lower in society there (“dulls the pain and discontent of the oppressed masses”)
Religion continues the hierarchy between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Durkheimian theory
Idea of the profane vs the sacred: Profane is the ordinary everyday acts in life removed from religion, while sacred is the rituals, symbols, and other special parts of life that are separate.
Weberian theory
practiced in the early US supported the development of capitalism
Rise of science
industrialization and enlightenment
Urbanization
growth of cities and movement of people from suburbs/rural areas into these cities
Temporalization
Making everything efficient, Creation of time zones, providing a standardization of life
Enlightenment
rise of science and rationalization (less religious influence, people look to scientific explanations)
Bureaucracy
system of government in which power is distributed
Bureaucratization
the creation of different social roles based on separation of powers, organization of society and standardization of interaction with government
Archivization
record keeping of birth and death, previously only the church had kept this information but now it was the government)
predictability, efficiency, calculability, control over uncertainty, substitution of humans
Deinstitutionalization (Rise of Individualism)
In traditional societies, the Background (taken for granted) is LARGER.
In modernity, the background is smaller and the foreground is expanded as we transition from habit to choice
The private sphere gets deinstitutionalized (marriage, religion, identity, family) and the public sphere gets institutionalized
Cultural pluralism
most societies in the past were homogenous and isolated, but after modernity, different cultures came into contact and facilitated conflict
Structural pluralism
a division of public vs private comes with modernity
Public sphere
(world of work): government, law, healthcare, military
Private sphere
(world of domesticity): family, religion, sexuality, friendships
Coleman:
Before modernity
identity was rooted institutionally/environmentally. No choice of reflection
Family
natural persons
All social organizations organized of persons
Coleman:
after modernity:
identity is flexible, no longer deeply institutionalized and fixed
Corporate structure
Corporations as a legal person
Not anymore organized of persons
Irrelevance of persons (easily replaceable)
Asymmetry of power between the corporate actor and the person
Hunter: Wither Adulthood
Childhood and adolescence appear as distinct periods of life only after modernity
Causes: the decline of infant mortality, separation of work/domesticity, industrialization and surplus economy
Adulthood gets deinstitutionalized and postponed
Took a long time for child labor to be eradicated and for young people to go to school and get educated
Children are seen as assets to the economy + concept of adolescence driven by industrialization
Life was organized around religious milestones (baptism, marriage, death) before modernity, but modernity ended the secularization of childhood and life
Social Stratification:
the existence of structured inequalities between groups in society in terms of their access to material and symbolic rewards
Intersectionality
a sociological perspective that holds that our multiple group memberships affect our lives in distinct ways from single group memberships. (ex: how race and gender can affect your life differently)
Someone can be undocumented, a woman, and a POC resulting in a combination of identities
I.e. separation between members within a group
Structured inequalities
social inequalities that result from patterns in the social structure
System of Stratification:
Systems in which it describes the social grouping of people, can involve Caste systems, class systems, estate systems, and slavery.
Slavery
Social system in which humans are owned by other humans (largely racially-based)
Caste
A social system in which one’s social status is held for life. (divided based on religious and cultural norms, also socioeconomic status)
Class system
a system of social hierarchy that allows individuals to move among classes. The four chief bases of class are ownership of wealth, occupation, income, and education
Marxian Theory:
the structure of capitalism inherently creates divisions in class that are not equal (Most important thing is remembering the difference between bourgeoisie and proletariat)
Means of production
the means whereby the production of material goods is carried on in a society including not just technology but also the social relations between producers
Bourgeoisie
people who own companies, land, stocks, and use them to create economic returns - the upper class created by capitalism, Marx predicts that they will be overthrown by the proletariat.
Proletariat
people who sell their labor for wages - according to Marx, the proletariat are the lower class people in a capitalist society that will eventually rise up against the bourgeoisie and implement communism, creating a classless society
Alienation
: sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities
Part of a larger machine
You work for a car company but you are only responsible for a single part, so you are alienated from the final product
Communism
economic theory wherein the state controllers the means of production as well as all of the wealth in society, creating a society devoid of class divides. Outlined by Marx and Engels, the idea of communism strives to eliminate the inequities created by capitalism.
Weberian theory
Society is broken into economic, social, and legal groups
Class and status
Status: the social honor or prestige a particular group is accorded by other members of society
Pariah groups: groups who suffer from negative status discrimination
Class & Status
Groups of people who have a similar economic and financial status, grouped into three different groups.
Forms of orders
Social order: distribution of honor (status)
Economic order: distribution of economic resources (class)
Legal order: distribution of power (party)
Economic capital
Economic resources
The material wealth and financial assets owned by individuals or families
Social capital
Membership in a group, family, political party, etc
We invest in relationships and spend time making meaningful connections
Social connections, which could be institutionalized into titles
Pierre Bourdieu
Cultural capital: Embodied
Acquiring skills to better themselves (gaining muscles)
Cannot transfer embodied capital
Always competition
Cultural capital:Institutionalized
Objectified in academic qualifications
Wanting to get the best value of education
PierreBourdieu Cultural capital:Objectified
Material things (art, monuments, instruments)
You can possess them or appropriate them (buy or consume)
Social Reproduction:
Non Economic cultural resources or knowledge that parents pass down to children
Linguistic and cultural competencies, familiarity with culture (accents)
Education and acquired Habitus (physical build)
Arlie Russell Hochschild: Gendered Inequalities in Families, Division of Household Labor
Explaining the great paradox
The Deep Story
Dislike of federal government: faith, taxes, loss of honor
Appreciated qualities: endurance, not claiming to be a victim, honor of hard work, American dream, loyalty
Resentment: Feeling betrayed → Downward mobility
Waiting in the line and line cutters: Those who feel like immigrants and other marginalized groups receive government handouts that act as “unfair advantages”, allowing them to cut the line
Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed
Focus on the working class poor and the cycle of poverty
Working class poor = no health care, inflexible work schedules, income varies from week to week
Barbara tried to survive on these low-wage jobs (1998)
The program was created to push people to work and get off of welfare
She worked as a hotel cleaner, motel worker, maid and found it very hard to survive
Race:
socially constructed category rooted in the belief that there are fundamental differences among humans, associated with phenotype and ancestry
Other attributes exist outside of skin color, physical characteristics, names
Remember melting pot
Ethnicity
Cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others
Orlando Patterson: Patterson (in Natal Alienation)
claims that a slave is a non-person that is detached from their lineage. With no belonging to a certain social order, a master would be the only social link to the outside world.
Color-Blind Racism
(Bonilla-Silva): racism without racists, pretending not to notice race as a “strategy” to end racism (erasure of trauma and struggle and the fact that POC have it harder than White people)
Peggy McIntosh
Invisible Knapsack - piece by McIntosh - whites are seen as oppressive even though they don’t think of themselves as such, there’s things white people take for granted
Earned strength and unearned power/advantages - some privileges should be a given
White privilege
the unacknowledged and unearned assets that benefit whites in their everyday lives
Institutional Racism
Racism that is inherent in the structure of society.
The idea that racism occurs through the respected and established institutions of society (schools, prisons, etc) rather than through the hateful actions of some bad people, power structures, can be proceduralized