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Prelim 3 Flashcards

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Weber: What country did he live in?

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germany

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Weber: When and how did he die?

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1920; Spanish Flu

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Weber: Why did he have a nervous breakdown?

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He insulted his father, who then died

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Weber: What were the sociological areas that his wife Marianne researched and why?

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Women’s Rights and Feminism; to improve women’s status and rights

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Weber: What famous American sociologist and activist did Weber meet when he visited the U.S.?

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Weber: What were the 3 clues he used to guide his famous study on The Protestant Ethic?

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  1. Capitalism emerges in Western Europe.
  2. Protestants are in the highest rungs of organizations in modern society
  3. Most people work very hard in modern society
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What is predestination in the Protestant religious worldview?

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An individual’s eventual destiny in the afterlife is already determined at birth

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What was the ‘sign’ of a person’s eventual destiny in the afterworld?

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material wealth

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What were the 3 practices that Protestant’s engaged in their attempts to achieve ‘the sign’ of the
chosen?

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  1. Worked very hard (“Protestant Work Ethic”)
  2. Engaged in careful rational planning and calculation (rationalization)
  3. Tried to build wealth (profit)
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What happens when the “cloak” of religion falls away?

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rationalization becomes a critical social force in the world

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What is the “iron cage” of rationalization?

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cage that traps us and prevents us from experiencing ourselves as independent creative humans capable of all kinds of emotions and special experiences

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What is the definition of worldview?

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a set of beliefs about the world connected to a particular social group

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Weber’s study in authority began with a simple question. What was that question?

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Why do people obey?

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What is the definition of authority?

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the ability to make people do things

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What are the 3 types of legitimate authority? Name, brief description, example for each type.

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  1. Traditional: grounded in the traditional order of society
    Ex: parents/children, teachers/students, a caste system.
  2. Charismatic: grounded in a strong leader who develops a faithful following, often convinces followers to ignore traditional or bureaucratic forms of authority, they compete for authority.
    Ex: cult leaders, Hitler, Jesus
  3. Bureaucratic: relies of a legal/rational framework of written rules and laws.
    Ex: attending Cornell University.
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Which is the most powerful of the three in modern societies?

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bureaucratic

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What are the three core categories of human identity according to Weber? Why is this approach
to understanding human life necessary?

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class, status, party

Humans are never just one single thing, we are a combination of these things (personalities, characters, and our worldviews); result in occupation

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What are “ideal types?”

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Building models of social things by studying the key documents of each historical era and built his theory from these documents

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What is “verstehen?”

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Approaching a research subject by practicing sympathetic understanding (trying to understand why a research subject feels, acts, behave from their particular perspective).

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Mills’ The Power Elite:
How is Mills’ study similar to Weber’s study of the Protestant Ethic?

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Mills wonders who is at the top of the bureaucratic orgs in society; no longer mainly Protestants so studies to find out who, their worldviews, and where they come from?

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Mills’ The Power Elite: Where is power located in the modern world?

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bureaucratic organizations (business, politics, military)

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Mills’ The Power Elite: Who are the people that get to use this power?

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Power elite, Higher circle: CEO, General, President, Governor, etc.

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Mills’ The Power Elite: Where do they come from, and how do they learn how to be this type of person?

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become members of the power elite through the sociological process of socialization (often in prestigious uniscolleges) and learn from other members of power elite

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Mills uses concepts like “higher circles” and “triangle of power” in his theory of power in
society. Where and what are the “higher circles?” and what is the “triangle of power?”

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Higher circle (top of bureaucratic orgs): CEO, General, President, Governor, etc.

Triangle of Power: Business, Politics, Military

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Mills and lecture used 4 models of power across different historical social structures. What
according to Mills are the differences between “a public” and “a mass.” How are the models
useful to understand this difference? What are the 4 models?

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Public:
- active participation
- diverse opinions
- individuals feel like they have influence
- people interact directly

Mass:
- passive concumpstion of info without engaging
- uniform opinions (influenced by mass media)
- limited influence
- interaction through media

  1. Feudal Monarchy (→ Life)
  2. Democracy (→ Government)
    - Public opinion
    - Direct discussion
    - independent press
  3. Mass Society/Power Elite Model (broadcasting model of one-way-transmission of information with no channel for feedback or public interaction; voiceless, powerless, disconnected mass of separated individuals in model
  4. The Rise of the Internet and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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What is the structure of the broadcasting model of the mass media?

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One transmitter can transmit a flow of controlled information to many receivers. The flow of information is one-way only; no channel for feedback or discussion. tightly controlled system for the control of information.

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How does the rise of the Internet disrupt the power elite system?

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People can directly interact and have forum to discuss; disrupt one way broadcasting model (many voices and opinions shared)

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Abortion: From my intro comments into Luker’s study, are Americans, in general politically apathetic?
What were my supporting statistics?

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Yes, apathetic; 40-50% of eligible voters do not vote.

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How is the iceberg metaphor used by Luker?

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Abortion is tip; sets of beliefs for each side are under the surface, must be investigated.; beliefs compromising worldview not always on surface and often woven together and connected in intricate ways.

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What are the two ‘ideal types’ discussed by Luker? Compare and contrast the two ideal types
including the necessary keywords: gender, sex, the social role order (wife, husband, mother,
father, children, occupation), birth control, pre-marital (teen) sex, religion, occupation, parenting,
the gendered sociology of place (home and work), intimacy, rights, ethics, traditional vs
bureaucratic authority.

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  1. On left side of board (liberal, Democratic Party): Pro-choice iceberg
  2. On right (conservative, Republican Party): Pro-life iceberg
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What was the sociological structure of the south after the Civil War? Briefly name and describe
this system.

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caste system; very rigid to change, people born into caste social systems and hard for social mobility. Top level used traditional authority, threat and violence to maintain order.

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What is the definition of a social movement?

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collective action aimed at social reorganization (social change)

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Why did blacks migrate away from the South? What was pushing them away from the south and
pulling them toward the North?

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to work in factory cities in north
- South wanted to industrialize, but would not hire blacks
- Agriculture mechanized and declined after WWI
- Government subsidized farmers to grow less
- Blacks had no jobs, they had to leave
- Foreign immigration halted because of WWI—North needed factory workers

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What political right did they have in the North?

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could vote

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What happened when blacks began to influence national political campaigns for the presidency? Was there a pattern?

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increased voter registration and black votes were trying to be obtained

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Why were U.S. presidents and candidates for office reluctant to support an expansion of civil right and protections for African Americans in the south?

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didnt want to lose votes nor create unrest and violence

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Which influential institution began to support change in race relations in the U.S. beginning in
the early 1950s?

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NAACP

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When, and what happened when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus?

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Dec. 1, 1955

bus strike, blacks organized car pools, mobilized…supreme court declared separate public facilities unconstitutional

Whites erupted in violence, bombing churches, homes, shootings, beatings

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What was “the Southern Manifesto?”

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promised to defend southern caste racial based system….signed by many U.S. congressmen….states rights to rule without federal interference

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What happened when Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested just a few days before the
1960 Presidential election? (p. 225)

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John Kennedy called Coretta Scott King to sympathize and Robert Kennedy called judge deciding the case.

black community in south and north immediately rallied around Kennedy campaign, and Kennedy won a close Presidential race against Richard Nixon.

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How did Kennedy mislead the movement after getting elected?

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expected more support and direct action but Kennedy was slow to act; focused on stopping violence and helping voter registration

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How did the movement respond to Kennedy’s suggestions?

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College students began to do “sit-in’s” or use bus and train terminals all over south

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What would happen when the movement engaged in public marches and protests?

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violence

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Why did elites in the South want change?

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wanted modern society not a backward feudal order

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What was the most important gain from the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965? (p. 182)

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winning of liberalized welfare practices to insure their survival despite widespread unemployment and underemployment

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What is the definition of poverty?

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being extremely poor; condition where person or community lacks financial resources and essentials necessary for a minimum standard of living

47
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What is the general poverty rate in the U.S. that I suggested we use in this class?

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12%

48
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Eviction: Who is Arleen? What is her life like?

A

impoverished mother of 2 young children in Milwaukee who’s
repeatedly evicted from her homes for various reasons (drug-infested or DNS closed for no running water) and had to stay in homeless shelters

49
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Eviction: Who is Sherrena? What is her life story? Her biography?

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Was a 4th grade teacher for few years, but got bored, quit and got into real estate

○ wanted to make it on her own without a school or company to fall back on

○ She generated profit by moving into homes and selling them to get enough money to buy an apartment building
and start renting to poor black of inner city and started businesses around credit improvement and driving people to see jailed relatives

50
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When a person gets evicted they can choose between two methods for the eviction, what are the
two methods of eviction?

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  1. the “truck”: An individual’s belongings are loaded into a truck and put away into storage which can
    only be accessed for $350
  2. the “curb”: or placed out on the curb
51
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What was the name of the homeless shelter where Arlene takes her children? Why is the name important?

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the Lodge; made it sound like residents were staying at a motel

52
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What did Sherrena bring to Arleen the day Arleen moved in?

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groceries

53
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What is the first study cited in Footnote #1?

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Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
(by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward).

54
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What are the bureaucratic organizations in the eviction industry?

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sheriff squads, moving companies, and data-mining companies (sell tenant data to landlords)

55
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What is the nickname of Sherrena and Quentin’s Chevy Suburban?

A

the Suburban

56
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What are the historical demographics of Milwaukee? Why?

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structural history stranded its residents within the city; ecnomic collapse and segregation

  • one of poorest cities in America
    ○ The North Side characterized by
    many abandoned properties and abundant poverty
    ○ Typical residential street has a few single-family homes owned by older residents and
    duplex/four-family apartment buildings rented to struggling families
    ○ Significant poor black population, especially on the North Side
57
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Why was it hard for Sherrena to evict Lamar?

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Lamar was wheelchair bound with no legs; “emotions dont pay bills”

58
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Sherrena has a business connected to the prison system, what is that business? What are her other
businesses?

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Prisoner Connections LLC: driving people to see jailed relatives (as prisons were often far away, and people lacked transportation; each drive was 25-$50)

  • real estate (renting), credit improvement
59
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Poor people use a seasonal system to try to avoid eviction and keep their electricity and gas flowing….what is that system?

A

Electric companies prohibited from cutting off power in winter

○ Summer: “catch up” on power bill
○ Winter: pay rent (instead of the power bill)

60
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What is DNS?

A

Department of Neighborhood Services

61
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Why did Sherrena decide to evict the tenant? There was a legal complication, how did Sherrena
avoid the complication?

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tenant’s mother called DNS without reaching out to her first; Landlords cant evict tenants for contacting DNS, but can if tenant has been missing rent or committing other violations

62
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What happens when Sherrena and Quentin deliver an eviction notice to their tenant?

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They’re threatened by tenant’s stepfather, and Quentin pulls
out utility belt with Mace, handcuffs, and a small baton

63
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$2 A Day: Who is Jennifer Hernandez? What is her life like?

A

impoverished, overworked, and underpaid mother of 2

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$2 A Day: What are the rules for the program at La Casa shelter for the homeless?

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different “stages” of subsidies based on whether resident
had obtained a job yet:

stage 1: intensive job search required of all adults

stage 2: for shelter residents who found jobs

  • Maximum stay of 3 months if resident hasn’t found job by then
65
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What are low wage jobs like? What is Jennifer’s job like at Chicago City Custodial Services?
Why were there so many foreclosed houses that needed to be cleaned? What condition were
many of these houses in?

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Underpaid, overworked:
Paid $8.75 per hour; with full hours; bi-weekly check after taxes ~$645

  • workers not “visible”
  • deep cleaning of condos, office suites, and foreclosed homes being readied for resale
    ○ expected to deep clean every property with same daily allotment of cleaning supplies, no matter how large property was

Why: in winter, homes in poorer black and Hispanic neighborhoods south of Loop
○ Dirty, cold, dangerous conditions
○ Water access cut off, so they’d often have to lug over buckets of water

66
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Why did Jennifer quit her job?

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  • poor working conditions (dark, dank, moldy, cold spaces),
    Jennifer (asthmatic) often got sick and passed on the sickness to her children (also asthmatic)
    ○ Often had to send her children to ER due to this sickness
    ○ Kept missing work due to these sick days, causing her to eventually quit
67
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Why did Jennifer take her children to see a play put on by Chicago’s famous Shakespeare in the
Park troupe?

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  • admission free
  • wanted to socialize her children
  • park gave out school knapsacks
68
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Computer technology is embedded in the core societal structures. How does Jennifer get access
to computer technology? What does Jennifer use her cell phone for and why?
(The authors make a very important point about work and the poor. Poor people work!)

A

used computer in basement of homeless shelter to complete job applications and hand out résumés to stores

  • cell phone required monthly payment to use, so she gave it to her children to play embedded phone games because couldnt afford payment
69
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What are EITC and SNAP? How do they run in opposite directions?

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Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): financial incentive for impoverished individuals; if
they work, government will grant a subsidy at EOY
○ The more the individual works, the greater of a tax bonus they will earn
○ At a certain income threshold, the tax bonus decreases

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): government support for getting food through food stamps
○ Increases as individuals lose access to income (get more food stamps)

○ problematic: increasing wages menas more EITC but less SNAP

70
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What is the vision of a decent life described by these people?

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income of $12 per hour
(barring sick pay, retirement, benefits), to attain enough stability to live decent standard of living

71
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Why was Susan Brown late for her interview at the clothing thrift shop?

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Had to walk, but taken to wrong place by iPhone maps

72
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What is Susan Brown’s educational history?

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dropped out high school senior year
before graduation after getting pregnant; later enrolled in community college to finish GED and earn associate’s in early childhood education

After year of remedial coursework, got pregnant again just as she was ready to take for-credit classes (antibiotics neutralized her birth control)

73
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There are two things that cause Susan Brown a lot of anxiety when she applies for a job. What
are they?

A
  1. “assessments” required and how strategic she feels she must be
  2. implication that only applicants with widely available schedules will be considered for job
74
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What are the findings of the racial employment application process studies discussed in the chapter? Why did these findings depress the paid research team?

A

_ Applicants with traditionally “white” names are more likely to get called for interview than those with “black” names

● Between a black and white applicant with virtually identical résumés, white applicant more likely to get a positive response from a prospective employer despite reporting a past
felony conviction

● Whites with no criminal record: 3 jobs applied to get a callback; 6 with criminal record

  • Blacks with no criminal record: 7; with
    felony convictions: 20
  • depressed black actors in study after experiencing repeated rejection
75
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Susan’s husband Devin got a job. Why are the sociological characteristics of this job?

A

job at nearby grocer
○ Paid $8.50 a week, 30 hours a week; paid weekly
○ Devin still couldn’t raise family of 3 above poverty line
○ family kept losing SNAP due to wage increase
○ No health insurance associated with job
○ Still couldn’t afford own place or to maintain Devin’s cell phone

76
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Was Rae McCormick very good at her job? Why did she like going to work?

A

very efficient as cashier at Walmart (fastest checkout)
○ memorized bar codes for commonly purchased items
○ Named “cashier of the month” twice, was always good to cover a shift (reliable)

enjoyed job because:
- it was calm and stress-free, unlike home life

77
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Rae has an anger management challenge. Why is she so angry?

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Survived repeated abandonment by adults in her life, constant exposure to danger

  • father died when she was young and caused mother to abandon her
  • She was raised without much love or care
  • uncle George is very untrustworthy
78
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Why did Rae get fired from her job?

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She gave uncle money to put gas in her truck, but he didn’t follow through, causing her to miss a day of work and her supervisor to fire her despite calling to explain situation

79
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How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Act effect the structure of low wage jobs because of basic economic theory of supply and demand?

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Increased supply of workers = employers can give lower wages and pay less attention to quality of working conditions

80
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What does the American dream look like for these people? What do they hope to get?

A

income of $12 per hour
(barring sick pay, retirement, benefits), to attain enough stability to live decent standard of living

81
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What is the definition of discourse?

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a structured system of thoughts, attitudes, opinions and beliefs about something in the world

82
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What is the repressive myth of sexuality? Was there one particular important influential figure that helped to foster this approach to human sexuality?

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Queen Victoria of England

Victorian era of sexual repression where sex should not be discussed and no skin should be revealed (and other norms for proper behavior). Skin is provocative for sex and so hidden.

83
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Why does Foucault disagree with the repressive myth?

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people were talking about sex quite often, even in church, and people across entire history of civilization all kinds of people have had all kinds of sex

wasn’t repressed, was constantly talked about and regulated

84
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Where is sex located? Two places that share something important in common.

A
  • most private places (e.g. bedroom)
  • human mind
  • very private, invisible to common observation
85
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How did the Catholic Church attempt to regulate human sexuality in the 17th century?

A
  • confess sexual experiences in detail in Catholic confessional; priest/church could study sex and regulate it (e.g. no sex outside marriage, where and when it should occur)
86
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How and why did government leaders begin to control sex beginning the 17th century?

A

Why: modern state focused on importance of managing populations to get management of population right.

How: **

87
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How did youth boarding schools attempt to control sex in the 18th century?

A
  • special rules for
    teaching youth about sex
  • special rules controlling nighttime behavior in sleeping
    dorms
88
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Why did science proclaim that it was superior to religion for knowledge about the world?

A
  1. bias free
  2. objective
  3. based on positivistic research
89
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What happened to the simple village peasant Jouy?

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was caught playing a generational youth sex game and girl told her parents who told police and arrested him. They took him to court and judge handed him over to medical science who
locked him away in an institution to study him for rest of his life (phrenology, the science of facial bones).

90
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How did science change the sociological history of human sexuality?

A

new proliferation of:
- new human
species, sexualized human being
- human types connected to sex desires,
- and human types located on the normal/deviant
binary

91
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What is the normal/deviant binary of sexuality? Who is proclaimed to be normal? Who is
accused of being deviant?

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a moral scale that put heterosexual model on normal side and
everything else on abnormal or deviant side (homoesexuals)

92
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How did society treat same sex desire before the 1960s?

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  • hunted, captured, and punished and forced to hide (infamous ‘closet’, name for a homosexual hiding his or her sexual yearning for same sex love and/or sex).
  • regularly arrested and punished and treated by barbaric medical treatments such as electroshock treatment.
  • seen as mental illness.
93
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What happened in NYC in the summer of 1969?

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Riot at the Stonewall bar

94
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What was the strategy used by the Gay Liberation Movement? For this answer you need to know the overall strategy and the 3 techniques that were used to reach the big goal. Was this strategy successful?

A

Strategy: normalization; escape the normal/deviant binary and be seen as “normal” human beings with different sexual interests than
heterosexual humans and be accepted by society.

  1. new name: opposite of dirty or polluted or sick….”gay”; a positive light-hearted name.
  2. Lobbied to end era of prohibition by copying strategies of civil rights movement. Gays wanted protections against housing discrimination and legal protections to live where they wanted, and end employment discrimination and any discrimination.
    Right to marry and share property with their mates.
  3. Successfully lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the famous DMS.
  • Partially successful
  • gay new name
  • civil rights like laws and acts passed
  • gay no longer seen as mental illness
95
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Who began to openly criticize gay liberation in the late 1970s? What was their discourse?

A

political right/religious conservatives

  • refused to accept the normalization thesis, and insisted on retaining the normal/deviant binary.
  • pull gays back from being “normal” to being “abnormal”
  • They began to re-pollute gay identity and pushed back on gay rights and the positive discourse of gay communities.
  • They invoked God and the bible as sources for their criticisms of gay life and especially used fears related to threats on the sacred status of the heterosexual based family as their rhetorical appeal.
96
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What happened when AIDS emerged as a dangerous disease in the early 1980s?

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became attached to gay sex communities because gays seemed to be suffering the most from this new disease

Different sides in gay sexuality debate used the disease as a source for their preferred visions of human sexuality, often completely disconnected from the reality and actual scientific facts of the disease and human life.

97
Q

How did the conservative right use AIDS?

A
  • AIDS showed immorality of gay life, because it was spread through casual sex; sent as message from God to punish sexual sinners.
  • Gay sexuality should be forbidden. Gay liberation should be stopped and turned back.
98
Q

How did the heterosexual left use AIDS?

A
  • People had right to experience same sex unions but should avoid casual sex and copy heterosexual model of becoming committed romantic based couples.
  • It should be noted that this was impossible because of laws that forbid gay marriage and sharing private property and also that gender based roles (man/female) in the heterosexual model were not always available to gays.
99
Q

How did gays use AIDS?

A

Gays 1:
- celebrated their new freedom by having sex with each other.

  • This was central to their new collective identity.

They built neighborhoods in major cities that included bars, nightclubs, bath houses where they could gather and have sex together.
They did not want to lose their community. Calls to cease or restrict their sexual practices were seen as very threatening because sex was at center of their group.

Gays 2:
- Some felt sex part of identity had limited them and was unhealthy because it was also connected to nightlife lifestyles connected to drinking and drugging behaviors that were self-harming and damaging.

  • some argued that gays should stop partying and stop the era of casual sex and instead fall in love and settle down in committed relationships.
    (model copied heterosexual model of coupling, especially including monogamy).
100
Q

Why is this still relevant today?

A

The normal/deviant binary continues to govern how various groups accept or reject human sexuality. Normalization gains, then gets pushed back.

101
Q

What is the 3-sector system used by Daniel Bell to describe all societies?

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  1. primary/extractive:
    farming, mining, lumber, fishing
  2. secondary/manufacturing:
    factories producing goods
  3. tertiary/postindustrial
    all non-manufacturing or non-extractive services.
    Knowledge is the basic ingredient for this sector.
    Educational attainment is an important factor for success.
102
Q

What is the definition of demography?

A

the study of human populations

103
Q

What is the myth or common stereotype about rural areas that Lichter and Johnson confront?

A

they’re distressed places,
population trapped, few to no jobs,
low levels of education,
and health issues including what are called “deaths of despair”

104
Q

Why is this only partially accurate and in many cases outright misleading?

Why is this important? Policy implications?

A

many places rural areas are doing so well, and growing, that they are being officially absorbed and reclassified into metro areas

They are cherry picking the best rural regions, changing the classification from nonmetro to metro while leaving behind the areas that are declining (demographic paradox)

105
Q

Stopping the Plant: Where does the study take place? Is this an area of historic importance? If so how and why?

A

Hudson NY; yes, Home to both Thomas Cole and his student Frederick Church of the famous Hudson River School of Painters The Hudson River School painted majestic natural landscape settings during the 19 th century, with a message and warning to be careful not to ruin the paradise of America.

Church’s house, Olana, is a National Historic Landmark (where our wedding was held)

106
Q

Stopping the Plant: What is the conflict in the reading?

A

wanted to build a new cement factory, but they
needed permission from the government

107
Q

Stopping the Plant: Who is battling?

A

People in favor of cement factory
People who were opposed to the cement factory

108
Q

Stopping the Plant: What are the discourse perspectives of each side of the conflict?

A

People in favor of cement factory: old economy, cement factory represented
their way of life
○ People who were opposed to the cement factory: a newly emerging post
industrial economy, based on tourism, real estate and post industrial realism,
wanted to build shops. These people did not want the burden of the factory,
environmental and aesthetic burden. This side won and the company was not
allowed to build the factory and now Hudson NY is a thriving post industrial
economy.

109
Q

Stopping the Plant: How is the overall economic impact of a new factory calculated?

A

How much has the factory actually spent on the region
○ More money for the people and more money to the economy and therefore people
would be buying more things in the town stimulating the economy.

110
Q

Stopping the Plant: How many jobs would have been created by the new factory?

A

one

111
Q

Stopping the Plant: Who won the conflict?

A

no factory

112
Q

Stopping the Plant: Is this a sort of a social class struggle?

A
113
Q

Stopping the Plant: What happened in the Hudson Valley during the COVID outbreak?

A

in-flow of new ‘new economy’ residents

114
Q

What is the topic of the final module in this course, after the test?

A

Sociology of Computerization

SOC 1101 (3 decks)

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