Final Exam Flashcards
Coercion
Leaders can act in overtly oppressive ways. They can beat and tear gas protesters. Soldiers and tanks.
Persuasion
“Manufacturing consent” which refers to the work needed to convince people to agree to conditions they might otherwise oppose.
Internal Movement Factors
Organizational strength, standing, and framing
Counter Resistant Frames
A frame that is strongly resistant to challenge (e.g “Love Wins”)
Global Connectedness and COVID 19
The global movement of people and products is greater today, and the speed by which they can move is unparalleled in history, which is part of why COVID spread so fast
Transnational Corporations
Corporations that operate in more than one country
Global Capitalism
Has produced a relatively stable system of social stratification
Karl Marx and Alienation
Proletariat people faced alienation when they were removed from nature and the products that they made didn’t belong to them. Bourgeoisie people separated themselves and felt a sense of entitlement. Caused a rift. Groups of people were formed and caused ecological catastrophe
Institutionalized Global Environmental Racism
Those least responsible for the emissions of greenhouse gases, disproportionately poor, previously colonized, non-White, and indigenous will pay the steepest price
Purpose of Sociology?
To understand and improve society
Social Fact
Anything produced collectively by people that exerts a force upon us (e.g. global warming, religion)
Sociological Imagination
the capacity to consider how people’s lives - including our own - are shaped by the social facts that surround us
Federal Housing Policies/Institutionalization of Segregation and Wealth Disparities
“White-only” suburbs were created by restrictive covenants
Racial Disparities in Education and Welfare
Kids living in more expensive neighborhoods get more expensive educations; the inverse is true for kids in poor neighborhoods. Tracking (putting students [disproportionately BIPOC and immigrant students] in classes supposedly scaled to their ability) gives “at risk” kids a poorer quality education. Children of color are adultified, which contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline. All of these lead to achievement gaps between white and poc (with the exception of Asian students)
