Final exam Flashcards
Define Culture and distinguish various definitions of culture structural
customs, beliefs, ideology, world-view, and values common to a group of people and which guide their individual and social behavior.
CLothes dress, manners, jokes, celebrations, folk art, food, childing rearing methods, medical care, religion
What is meant by cultural relativism?
not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. Instead, we should try to understand cultural practices of other groups in its own cultural context.
define ethnocentrism
measuring or judging one’s own culture against another culture and can lead to judging someone else’s culture negatively. Ethnocentrism is also the belief that one’s own cultural rules are the best and often better than another culture’s rules.
An example of ethnocentrism is when you judge other countries for the way they eat, but don’t have a moral reason for this
what is acculturation
mutual sharing of culture; groups remain distinct, but certain elements of culture change through exchange
assimilation def
cultural uniqueness of minorities is abandoned and members try to blend into the dominant culture
accommodation def
partial or selective cultural change/ Non-dominant groups follow norms, rules, and standards of the dominant culture only in specific circumstances and contexts
define social institutions
orgainzies rights and duties into statues (social posittoins) and roles. and identify the expoected behaviors for the roels
organize social relations in a particular secotr of social life (family and reglioon)
often persis in face of issues but can eveolve
def social structure
set of interrelatted social insititutions developed to impose constraints on interaction for the purpose of the survival and well-being of the colelctiviity
also known as society
be able to identify the functions of the various social institutions
government, education, family, religion
Each institution performs two types of social function. (a) primary functions, which are also called manifest, explicit, or direct functions; (b) secondary functions, which are also called indirect, hidden, or latent functions. Through these functions, social institutions fulfill important needs in the society.
what is conservative thesis
inequality is the natural, divine order, and no efforts should be made to alter it.
intervention interfferes with a natural process
what is radical antithesis
equality is the natural, divine order; inequality is based on abuse of privilege and should be minimized.
intervention can overcome differences in ability
karl marx view
class differences based on exploitation and domination by owners of production and alienation among the workers
soical class as a central variable in human behavior and a central force in human history
webers view
class division based on “life choices” in the marketplace
life chances reflect distrubtuion of power within a community including economic power social prestige and legal power
life chances fall on a continuum
great variability found along hte continuum relfects multiple sources of power
class consciousness
awareness of one’s social class and hostility towards other classes, motivates people to transform society
main thesis of structural determinism
human behavior highly determined by one’s social class position
rational perspectives on organizations
It assumes organizations can be designed with structures and processes that maximize efficiency and effectiveness, concepts that are highly valued in this perspective.
Efficiency means obtaining a high ratio of output to input, achieving the best outcome from the least investment of resources.
Effectiveness means goal accomplishment.
systems perspective
constantly interacting with it mulitple environments
social, poltitical, econmoic, cultural, technological; must adapt to environmental change
interactional/ interpretive perspective
organizations provide members with a sense of connection and meaning
process, rather than goals
flexibility, rather than control/reason
diversity or approaches, rahter than one right away
critical perspective
views orgainizations as “instruments of explotitation and domination”, where conflicting interest are decided in favor of the most powerful members, who benefit the most
decision-making theory
organizations, focusing on how decisions of individuals in organizations affect the organization as a whole
theory x
workers have a inherent dislike of work
workers prefer to be told what to do
workers repsond to money as primary motivator
theory y
workers see work as a natural activity
wokrers are self-directed when working on prokects to which they are committed
workes seek responsibility when organizational foals are congruent with their needs.
they are more creative contributions to make than organiztations generally allow
learning organizations take on rational planning?
rational planning is not sufficient for an organization to survive in a rapidly changing environment such as the one in which we live.
Formal organizations must become complex systems capable of constant learning
dimensions of work life associated with burnout
workload
control
reward
community
fairness
values
how political exconmoy mode inform soical service?
important issues as which clients to serve, which services to provide, how to organize service provision, and how to define staff and client roles
how are systems and interpretive perspectives related
Organizations are seen from an interactional/interpretive perspective as social systems, and this viewpoint examines how the system’s various components interact to produce meaning.
This viewpoint focuses on the interactions and communication within the organization
why manage diversity model
contemporary organizations cannot be successful unless they learn to manage diverse populations. Diversity is a permanent, not transitory, feature of contemporary life.
sense of community
interdependence
relationship vis communication, helping someone, having someone help you (mutual exchange to fulfill needs)
sense of commanalilities or similarities with others
sense that youre part of a larger reliable group
gesllschaft
society
relationships are impersonal and contractual
gemeinschaft
community
relationships are personal and traditional
define community structure
network of relationships
intitutions
economic factors
political factors
horizontal linkages
interactions with other members of the community
vertical linkage
interactions with individuals and systems outside the community
bonding social capital
inward looking and tends to mobilize solidarity and in group lotalty leads to exclusive identities and homegenous communities
briding social capital
outward looking and idverse, links community members to assests and informaitn across community boundaries
definifn characteristics of social capital?
community cohesion
based in social networks
high levels of civic engagement
sense of solidarity and equality among mebers
norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness
grographic information systems importnat to sw?
fgives spatial distribution of a variety of social data
consequences of community with technology
less dependantcy loses it
define social movement
ongoing, large scale, collective efforts to bring about (or resist) social change
proactive social movement
seek to reform existing social arrangements and try out new ways of cooperating and living together
living wage, occupy wall street, marriage equality
reactive social movements
seek to defend traditional values and social arrangments
christian/islanic fundamentalist
key idea of cultural framing
succeeds only when participants develop shared understandings and definitions of the situation
a transactional process of consciousness-raising
how does strain theory relate to social movement
refers to the strain that society can place on its people, which causes them to be frustrated and motivated to take action.
Without some form of structural strain, people would not feel the need to organize and take action to make a change.
when does framing contest result
people whom are interested in a specific movement beacuse it appears just and worthy lead
encapsulated
inward focus
labor unions
institutionalization
social work
factionalization
student protest movement 1968
