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Social Stratification Midterm #1 Flashcards

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Doug Ford wanting to halve the council is an example of a premier wanting to enact which clause?

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Non-Withstanding Clause

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Who was Delwin Vriend?

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An Albertan, homosexual man who was fired from his job because he was gay - Klein wanted to invoke Not-Withstanding Clause

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Who was Leilani Muir

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Young girl who was steralized by the Alberta Home for Mental Defectives

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2 times the Not-Withstanding Clause was proposed in Alberta:

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  1. Lost job of homosexual man

2. Steralization of young girl without consent

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Term that observed who gets what and why?

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Social stratification

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2 ways of gaining status in our society

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ascribed and achieved

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Achieved status operated under the idea of:

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meritocracy

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Term for the investment that you put into yourself

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meritocracy

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Type of status that you are born into

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ascribed

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Who spoke about the theory of the circulating elite?

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C. Wright Mills

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What are the three realms of elite in C. Wright Mill’s Theory of the Circulating Elite?

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Military, Government and Business

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Theory of the Circulating Elite suggests that if one works their way up the ranks or if their family is in good positions…

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They will stay around the same level at the higher ranks. You don’t start from the bottom.

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Another word for social ranks

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strata

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Having a family stay within the same social ranks/strata is called

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social reproduction

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15
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People are culturally bound in:

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time and circumstance

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16
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2 high values in society:

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Youth and wealth

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the New Edmonton School Program positioned the teacher as what for the students?

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The guide, making students the decision makers

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Why didn’t the new Edmonton school program work in NE Edmonton?

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Parents of children with lower socioeconomic status wanted children to be socialized into being first to have higher education, therefore need more instruction and authority

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Who was John Porter?

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A Canadian sociologist who talked about status and social class in Canada

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Porter’s 3 components to social class in Canada

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  1. Income
  2. Power
  3. Prestige
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A job that has a lower income but high prestige

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fireman

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What is another phrase linked to Fordism?

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Deskilling the worker

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taking a persons job and disassembling it into component parts is called

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fordism/deskilling the worker

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Term for patterns of social relationships, consumption of material goods and culture

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lifestyles

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25
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What is central to social inequality?

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Class

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26
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Grabb suggests that social groupings differ mostly under what categories?

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  1. Money
  2. Wealth
  3. Property
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27
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Who was Bernard Blishen

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Ranked occupations in Canada

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What did Bernard Blishen discover?

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most underpaid people are child or elderly care givers

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29
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Who was the father of modern sociology?

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Karl Marx

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3 great changes in society during the industrial revolution

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  1. Migration into urban areas
  2. Moving from subsistence lifestyle to wage-labor in city
  3. Social organization
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What type of views was Karl Marx exposed to growing up?

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Egalitarian, intellectual views

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32
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Karl Marx was strongly influenced by what theoretician?

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Hegel

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33
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Who was Rosa Parks?

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Forerunner in the civil rights movement who refused to ride on the back of the bus in the US

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What does the hegelian dialectic suggest about theory?

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Theory moves to the anti-theory, and then comes back in between the theory and the anti-theory for synthesis

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Engles and Marx would have meetings together in a labor union called:

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“The Communist League”

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36
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Who spoke about the surplus wealth?

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Marx

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37
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What is the surplus wealth according to Marx?

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the value added to a particular item on top of how much it usually costs

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38
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Who was Edgerton Ryerson?

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The father of public education who convinced property owners to pay taxes to get children in schools and out of causing trouble around farms

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term for groups of individuals who have the same economic, social, legal access to the goods in society and are able to have the same lifestyles

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class

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40
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To Marx, what is the most important aspect of society?

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economy

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41
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What did Marx notice about the distribution of wealth?

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That wealth was being concentrated in the hands of very few people

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42
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What is the theory that states that the material conditions of life ultimately determine the course of history?

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Historical Materialism

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43
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4 different forms of society that Marx says we move through

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  1. Slave-based
  2. Feudal
  3. Capitalism
  4. Socialism
44
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How is Marx a conflict theorist?

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says conflict causes change in society

45
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What is Marx’s idea of praxis?

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that the working class are the ones that would bring change by rising up

46
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How was Marx different than hegel?

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He wanted to bring Hegel’s ethereal ideas into the real world

47
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Who said each society exists with the germ of it’s own destruction?

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Saint Simon

48
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2 parts of labelling theory

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Affixing the label and the treatment recieved after a label has been affixed

49
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3 components of the capitalist system

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  1. Commodity
  2. Exchange Value
  3. Abstract Labor Time
50
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Term for anything that is produced for exchange and not for the use of the producer

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commodity

51
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3 perks for deskilling the worker

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  1. Replaceable
  2. Hard to move up
  3. Can’t leave to start own business
52
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Term that refers to amount of human labor time that goes into the production of a commodity

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exchange value

53
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Term that refers to labor in general, or the average time it takes to produce a commodity in society given the level of technology and knowledge

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abstract labor time

54
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Term for a situation where proletariat become aware of their position and realize things are not good for them, begining to act on alleviating their oppression

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Class consciousness

55
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The key to class consciousness according to Marx is…

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awareness and action

56
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4 ways labor alienation happens according to Marx

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Alienation from:

  1. The product they produce
  2. The process of labor itself
  3. Other workers
  4. Their human potential
57
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Marx argues that …… is very important for workers to feel fulfilled in their work

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the creative process

58
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According to Marx, class struggle is defined as:

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conflict between bourgeoisie and proletariat

59
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Who spoke about “The Protestant Work Ethic”

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Max Weber

60
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What is the gist of the protestant work ethic?

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Hard work and self-responsibility leads to salvation

61
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3 components to rationalization

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  1. Reason
  2. Calculation
  3. Pursuit of particular interests
62
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3 components of legitimate authority

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  1. Tradition
  2. Bureaucratic/ Rational Legal
  3. Charismatic
63
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When does a case go to the supreme court in Canada?

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when there a completely new situation without a precedent to follow

64
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Who spoke about the decline in the legitimacy of leaders and replacement of charismatic leaders?

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Max Weber

65
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An example of non-legitimate authority

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a coercive regime such as a threat of violence

66
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7 aspects of bureauocracy (R.S.H.T.S.O.A)

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  1. Bound by rules
  2. Specialized duties
  3. Hierarchy of positions
  4. Technical rules and norms
  5. Separations between personal and professional affairs
  6. Individuals do not own their office
  7. Admin decisions are recorded in writing
67
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3 ways the Charter of rights and freedoms represents a bureaucracy

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  1. Eliminates needing new resolution for similar cases
  2. Standard treatment
    3, Ignorance is no excuse
68
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Weber believed the role of religion was to:

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help people cope

69
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Weber believed that type of religions that people follow is dependent on:

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the class or status of an individual

70
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Weber suggests that small trades follow religions of:

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faith, hard work and devotion to bring ‘just rewards’

71
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Weber suggests that rich business class follow religions that are oriented at:

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the here and now, not the afterlife

72
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Weber suggests that lower classes choose religions of

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salvation, hoping for better life in the next world

73
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Weber’s 3 basicsof social stratification

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  1. Class
  2. Property
  3. Power
74
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Weber says class is an economic category developed by:

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human interaction in the market

75
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Weber says class is a part of a system of:

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competitive exchange

76
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To Weber, property is defined as

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not only owning things, but the property of individual intelligence, motivation, education, meritocracy

77
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Weber’s definition of power

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a status group and party with interest groups that are involed in a struggle

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Who is interested in the reoccuring patterns of societal behaviour and meanings behind actions?

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Weber

79
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Who said religion is opiate for the masses?

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Marx

80
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Weber said that in order for society to prosper, we need:

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organization

81
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Weber’s primary focus:

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subjective meaning of people taking action

82
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term for placing yourself in the shoes of an other

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sympathetic imagination

83
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Weber’s view on modern society

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goal-oriented

84
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What is the ideal type?

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a conceptual tool, asking if something were perfect, what would it be?

85
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the view that causation is not a single kind of relation or connection between things in the world.

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Casual pluralism

86
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Durkheim’s stance on the division of labor

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believes that issues arise when social development proceeds in a way that it undermines the similarities and recognition of one another (collective -> autonomous)

87
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What two things does division of labour emphasize?

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social differentiation and social heterogeneity

88
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To Durkheim, the fault line that caused the division of labour was

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the industrial revolution

89
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To Durkheim, what causes differences in lifestyles and promotes individualism, and thus inequality?

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fragmentation and division of individuals into occupational groups

90
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To Durkheim, a weak collective conscious results in…

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loss of control over the behaviour of individuals

91
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Durkheim’s 3 forms of division of labour

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Normal, anomic, and forced

92
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the positive form of division of labour that has general regulations to guide the interactions between people

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normal division of labour

93
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form of division of labour that can be said to have fairness in the attainment of positions in society

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normal

94
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In normal divisions of labor, who’s desires are fulfilled?

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both the individual’s and collective’s

95
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The name of the policy that requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups

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The Employment Equity Policy

96
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What are the four designated groups covered in the Employment Equity Policy

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women, people with disabilities, aboriginals and visible minorities

97
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Form of division of labor where mutual contributions and obligations are denied or overlooked, resulting in competition

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Anomic

98
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In anomic divisions of labour, there is conflict between…

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capital and labor: concentration of capital ownership to a select few

99
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Form of division of labor where division of labor is not allowed to develop spontaneously and where some act to protect themselves and their positions

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forced

100
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What does Durkheim suggest keeps society unified by holding collective values?

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religion

101
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4 types of suicide

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  1. Anomic
  2. Egoistic
  3. Altruistic
  4. Fatalistic
102
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Type of suicide where integration (sacrifice for others) is too high

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Altruistic

103
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Type of suicide where integration is too low (feeling alone)

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Egoistic

104
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Type of suicide where regulation is too high, such as feeling like you can’t make decisions in your own life, being stressed at school

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fatalistic

105
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Type of suicide where regulation is too low and have an “anything goes”, “boom bust” mentality

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anomic

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