Sociology 101 Flashcards
What is a social movement?
an organized effort by one or more groups in society to promote or resist social change through different types of engagement
What is the women’s sufferage?
right to vote in political elections
Types of Social movements
Revolutionary: establishing order by focusing on surpa -individual systems, overthrowing those in power
Reformative: partial change within a larger system
Redemptive: change the whole individual
Alternative: change a specific aspect of peoples behaviour
Hacktivism
part of a larger brnach of cyberactivism, which manipute and deploys ICTs for a particular use
Civil Disobedience
public and non-violent form of protest that is used to communicate opinions in opposition to government law and policy (marching, sit-ins, strikes)
Resource Mobilization Theory
examines how social movements acquire, manage, and mobilize resources
Machine Breaking
describing workers actions against machinery & social changes resulting industrialization
Background: large machinery introduced into industries, allowing employers to hire non-skilled workers on a lower wage, led to an increase in unemployed among highly skilled craftsmen
Population Issues
Exponential Population Growth: death rates decrease but birth rates remain same
Overpopulation: available resources cannot sustain the number of people living there
Population Theoretical Approches
Conflict Theory: population issues not because of overpopulation but because of unfair and harmful world wealth distribution
Functionalist: as world’s resources grow, population grows rapidly
Symbolic Interactionism: interested in meanings people attach to their own and other’s behavior; ways people in a given population structure their lives
Urbanization: population shift from rural to urban areas, growth and development of cities and lifestyles
Low Fertility Concerns
due to the feminism push, more women are waiting to have kids if they even have kids at all. Their fertility rate is lowering as they get older.
There will be no one to care for the next generation
Environmentalism terms
Environmental degradation: harmful change or distrubance to the environment
Natural environment: anything living or non on the Earth, not humans
Environmentalism: belief in and concern for the importance of the natural environment for a society
Sustainability: property of a system that allows for both its use and long-term regeneration
Sustainable development: development that meets peoples needs today but doesn’t compromise them in the future
Science: a human community of scientists, behaving according to its social norms
Misinformation
false information spread unintentionally
disinformation
false information spread intentionally
Mass communication & media
mass communication: creation, repackaging and distribution of content on large scale through mass media
mass media: collection of media organization that communicate information to the public through a variety of media technologies
new media: media characterized by a decentralized process of content creation and distribution
Frankfurt School
analyzed how mass-produced cultural goods led to standardization and uniformity in content, destroying individuality
