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Body Project
This concept refers to the active shaping of the body to meet cultural beauty and health standards. It encompasses activities like
camouflaging (makeup, deodorant),
extending (glasses, prosthetics),
adapting (weight loss, hair removal), and
redesigning (plastic surgery, tattoos).
McDonaldization
Definition: The idea that businesses and organizations start running like fast-food restaurants, with efficiency, predictability, and control.
Expansion: It expands on “rationalization” (making things more efficient and predictable).
What it stands for: It shows how society becomes more standardized, which can reduce creativity and individuality.
Types of Social Control
Definition: Ways society encourages people to follow rules.
2 Types:
Informal Social Control: Unwritten rules, like peer pressure.
Example: Friends influencing you to dress a certain way.
Formal Social Control: Official rules, like laws.
Example: Getting arrested for breaking the law.
Collective Action
Definition: When people come together to achieve a common goal.
3 Types:
Conventional: Organized actions like protests.
Example: Marching for climate change.
Contentious: Actions that challenge the system, like riots.
Example: Protests that turn into riots.
Cooperative: Working together for mutual benefit, like community projects.
Example: A neighborhood clean-up event
Routinization of Charismatic Leadership
Definition: It’s when a leader’s personal influence is turned into a structured system or organization to keep their impact alive even after they leave.
Why it’s important: It helps movements or organizations continue after the leader is gone by creating rules and structures.
Cultural Capital
Definition: Knowledge, skills, and education that give people social advantages.
Why it’s important: It helps explain why some people have more opportunities and power than others in society.
