socio exam Flashcards
what changed the feminist movement in the 70s?
-spike in divorce rate
-increase education
-contraception women gained greater control over when and if they would have children
“The pursuit of attention”
Charles Derber argues that there is a general lack of social support in today’s America, one which causes people to vie hungrily for attention
Social distance scale
(a technique to measure prejudice)
Sociological approach to try to understand/measure prejudice
(by Emory Bogardus)
Marx on religion
Karl marx: class conflict and false consciousness
-urban based capitalism was at a boom
-marx believed in the large working class overthrow the system and create and equal working system
-he believed religion is a human creation its a social system
Religion keeps this group oppressed it was the opiate of the masses keeps them dulled and complicite
-he though it served the ruling class
Durkheim religion
Religion came into play in the opposite way for karl marx, durkheim thought the new capitalist society needed to be kept so it confunctions
-and unlike marks he thought religion was the glue to keep this society together
-he also believed people created religion
-the heart of religion is people with a common belief coming together
-collective consciousness is created by religion its a sense of togetherness the feeling of a power greater than the individual
God= collective consciousness
-he hoped and didn’t think religion would go
Weber religion
-he saw religion as something that lead to capitalism
-religious belief brought the economic order of capitalism
-he asked why did capitalism only develop in the west
-as he started looking at the capitalist class and one thing he noticed was that the new capitalist came from protestantism or kelvanist
-they believed that you work hard in the means of serving god= the protistent work ethic
-god was all knowing, the group believed in predestination from birth all you could do is look for signs from god
-success in economic activity was a sign of god’s grace
-the protestant became the upper class because they fit the work ethic that was suited to capitalist business and it gave them a moral justification
ethnocentrism
the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.
Counterculture
refers to cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society.
secularization
the historical decline in the importance of the supernatural and the sacred. is commonly associated with modern, technologically advanced societies in which science is the major way of understanding.
Religiosity
is the importance of religion in a person’s life
Deviance is
non conformity+ negative social reaction+social reaction`
functionalist paradigm
Emile durkheim he said deviance could be found in any society in all social groups he concluded deviance was normals furthermore if it is normal than deviance has a function,
Social conflict theory
Deviance and crime, and the responses to them, reflect the social inequalities in society, deviance and crime reveles to us the problems in society and tells us how we will respond
Symbolic interaction theory
deviance and crime are produced by the processes of social interaction and the attachment of meaning to behavior. Taking this assertion as a starting point, several more specific explanations of deviance have been offered.
Labeling Theory
There is the behavior, part of the social interaction is involved with labeling why certain people are labeled as deviant, it depends on the context of the individual, for those who are it’s the consequences that that label creates and that the label leads to more deviant behavior
