Sociological imagination/ globalization and sociological history Flashcards
Sociological imagination
e capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal issues are really social issues that are widely shared by others living in a similar time and place as us
Power elites
The power elite is a term used by American sociologist C. Wright Mills to describe a relatively small, loosely connected group of individuals who dominate American policy making.
Social problem
The term “social problem” is usually taken to refer to social conditions that disrupt or damage society—crime, racism, and the like.
Sociology
the scientific study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Capitalism
An economic system based on the private ownership of wealth, which is invested and reinvested in order to product profit.
Social structure
the many diverse ways in which the rules and norms of everyday life become enduring patterns that shape and govern social interaction
Globalization
The worldwide integration of govt. policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and exchange of ideas.
Industrial revolution
The transition to new manufacturing processes in the US and Europe.
Durkheim
The rise of individuality in modernity was a good thing, but it came with a significant risk; the social solidarity and even collective effervescence that true social individuality might help sustain would be threatened by the growth of privatised, selfish individualism.
Marx
Capitalism is built on the exploitation of labouring groups for the profit of others. Class conflict is embedded in the system of capitalism that then shapes other social institutions.
Weber
Cultural values interact with economic and political systems to produce society; no other factor determines the character of society.
Dubois
Racial inequality structures social institutions in the US. Those who are oppressed by race develop a dual consciousness, ever aware of their status in the eyes of others but also have a collective identity as African American, for example.
Class conflict
Class conflict is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society consequent to socio-economic competition among the social classes.
Protestant work ethic
The Protestant work ethic is a concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes that hard work, discipline and frugality are a result of a person’s subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith.
