Final

Question 1

Deindividuation

Answer 1

• Distancing people from their social roles
• Temporary/ permanent loss of self
• Can happen in riots, total institutions, rites of passage

Question 2

Socialization

Answer 2

• Process of passing societies norms/ culture to new person
• As child learn appropriate behavior for your society
• As immigrant learn the new behavior that is appropriate

Question 3

Resocialization

Answer 3

• Reshaping values/ behaviors to the new culture/ society you are in
• Like socialization but not for babies, happens when moving countries, jobs, states, military

Question 4

Total Institutions

Answer 4

• Places where you give up your control
• Agree to become deindividuated for a purpose
• Military breaks ya down & builds you back up
• Prison, Treatment facilities

Question 5

Deindividuation process

Answer 5

• separation from outside world
• Liminality removing ambiguity
• take away choices
• sameness (being taught rights/responsibilities)
• Heaven’s Gate women dressed like men

Question 6

Types of Deindividuation

Answer 6

• Rights of passage
• religious groups
• riots

Question 7

Ritual

Answer 7

• Repetitive
• Stylized
• Sequential
• Nonordinary
• Symbolic actions that reinforce the collective

Question 8

Rites of Passage

Answer 8

• Identifies change from one status to a new within culture
• Formalized ceremony that marks change
• Society recognizes adult status of young members

Question 9

Victor Turner

Answer 9

-Studied Ndembo tribe in Africa
-Interesting rights of passage
-Tribes status change was separation, liminality, rein corporation with new status
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Question 10

Liminality

Answer 10

• Whole reason rites of passage exist & deindividuation

- A quality of ambiguity/ disorientation

Question 11

Reincorporation

Answer 11

• Coming back into society as new status

- Acting with the norms of new status/ expectations

Question 12

Cicatrization

Answer 12

• Act of scaring in art form

- Cutting skin and filling with ash to cause scaring

Question 13

Structure & Anti-Structure

Answer 13

• Turner says structure is based on emphasizing status, differences
• Anti-structure is the opposite focuses on sameness, not class/ status, being essentially identical
• Communitas the oneness of humanity

Question 14

Anti-structure social movements

Answer 14

• counter culture movements, vietnam war time
• 60’s was about unisexuality (being polymorphic)
• Was about going against status bound social orders

Question 15

Social Stratificaiton

Answer 15

• Division of people by money, occupation, race creating a hierarchy
• Giving more power, status, class to certain groups

Question 16

Open system of stratification

Answer 16

• Lines between classes are less well defined
• Can move between the layers of the social cake more easily
• Part of class system where achieved status is more important than ascribed status

Question 17

Closed system of stratification

Answer 17

• Strict lines between classes, about keeping others out
• Mobility is almost impossible
• Caste system is very closed your ascribed status is the most important

Question 18

Caste System

Answer 18

4 Varnas
-Brahman (mouthpiece of the gods, monks, teachers)
-Kshatriya (warriors)
-Viashya (farmers)
-Shudra (shopkeepers, farmers, artisans)
-Untouchables (polluted, dealt with garbage & ambiguois substances)
Within each Varna are thousands of Jati

Question 19

Social Mobility

Answer 19

In open systems of stratification it’s easier for social mobility
-Within american society the top layers are the most likely for social mobility (not the poor)