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1
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Dramaturgical Metaphor

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  • individuals are actors, performing roles
  • audience is who or whatever you are performing for
  • stage is your setting (front stage, backstage)
  • performance techniques can be learned through observation or other actors
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Impression Management is _____________.

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How we adjust our presentation of self

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3
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First impressions give us a _______.

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Base Outline

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Frontstage

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area where your present yourself to society and the world

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Front stage tends to be ___________ (3 things)

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superficial, stressful, poor representation of self

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Backstage

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area where you go to prepare for performances

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Performance of Self

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  • we are merely actors performing role after role

- trying to ‘find yourself’ is futile

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Frame Analysis

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every situation is set into a frame, and we perform our role based on this frame

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Modern society is _______ (Four Things)

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Urban, Industrial, Bureaucratic, Pluralistic

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10
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3 great revolutions

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Political, Scientific, Industrial

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Political Revolution destroyed ______ and ______.

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great monarchies and feudalism

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12
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Political revolution caused rise of _______.

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democratic societies

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Scientific revolution was the _______.

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rise of scientific method (reason)

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14
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Two key consequences of Scientific Revolution

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  1. Technological innovations –> industrial revolution

2. Declining significance of a religious world view

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15
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Industrial Revolution

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specialized, machine based production

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16
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Industrial Revolution caused the birth of the _______.

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middle class

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17
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Industrialization definition

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Replacement of living energy sources with non-living energy sources

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18
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Social Differentiation

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the process by which different social categories energy and by which people come to fill those categories

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Specialization

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one type of social differentiation, “the transformation from single, multiple purpose statuses/roles to multiple, single purpose statuses/roles.”

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Consequences of Specialization (Optimistic Prediction)

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  • Adam Smith
  • dramatically increases productivity
  • creates new jobs
  • mechanism for social organization
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Economic interdependence

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exchange relationships

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Consequences of Specialization (Cautiously Optimistic)

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  • Emile Durkheim
  • is specialization really a viable form of social organization?
  • Industrial societies could produce solidarity
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23
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Solidarity

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“commonality of purpose and social identity”

24
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Pre industrial societies had _______ solidarity

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mechanical

25
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economy determines _______.

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solidarity

26
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simple division of labor by _____ and ______.

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gender and age

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organic solidarity

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economic interdependence

28
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Specialization could produce ________.

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anomie

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anomie

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a condition of societal normlessness

30
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Consequences of Specialization (Pessimistic)

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  • Karl Marx

- concerned about the types of work in an industrial economy

31
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Alienation definition

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separation/estrangement from:

  • production process itself
  • finished products of our labor
  • our fellow workers
  • ourselves
32
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stratification

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vertical ranking of members of a society, based upon their access to and control over scarce resources

33
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According to Max Weber, we rank people according to:

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wealth, honor, power

34
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class stratification

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rank according to wealth

35
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status stratification

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rank according to honor

36
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party stratification

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rank according to power

37
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Household Economy

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  • produced subsistence
  • work was performed in and for the household
  • money was used as a unit of account
  • barter/trade for items they did not produce
  • orientation AWAY from the market
38
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Capitalism

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a set of social practices and a way of thinking about organizing economic activities

39
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3 Distinct Features of Capitalism

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  1. the Market
  2. Distinct Economic Institutions
  3. Profit Orientation
40
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The Market

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impersonal buying and selling of commodities

-goods produced with expressed intent of selling them for more than it cost to produce them

41
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Distinct Economic Institutions

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organizations specializing in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of specific problems

42
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“Double dependence”

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?????

43
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Profit Orientation

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Marx- commondity production circuit:

M-C-M’ (Money, Commodities, More Money)

44
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2 Predictions about Stratification

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Marx: 2 Class Society

Adam Smith: Generally Higher Standard of Living for Most

45
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Bourgeoisie and Proletariat

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owners and workers

46
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Poverty Line

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$22,050/family of 4

research shows that a family needs twice the poverty level income to meet basic needs

47
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Feminization of Poverty

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female headed poverty houses has increased to 50%; there is an increasing number of females in poverty

48
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_____% of US has Bachelor’s degree or higher

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30

49
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Unemployment rate:

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7.7% (4.2 among college students)

50
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Three types of labor

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  1. extractive (primary)
  2. manufacturing (secondary)
  3. services (tertiary)
51
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5 functional (occupational) groups

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  1. Extractive Production
  2. Industrial Production
  3. Low Skilled Services
  4. High Skilled Services
  5. Administration
52
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Post industrial

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most jobs don’t work in factories

53
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2 fastest growing services

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correctional and healthcare

54
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Income

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what you are paid

55
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Wealth

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everything you have

56
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____% of wealth goes to top ____% of population

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93, 20

57
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___% of America has ____% of nation’s wealth

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1, 40

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