Sociology: As a life of Death Issue: Chapter 2

Question 1

What do sociologists try to do?

Answer 1

Try to identify:

1. Interesting/important behaviour
2. Specific social forces
3. The larger institutional, Political, or other change.

Question 2

Sociologist try to identify Interesting/important behaviour, specific social forces, and the larger institutional, Political, or other change. According to C. Wright Mills, why do they do this?

Answer 2

To help people better understand what they are and what they can become is particular social and historical contexts.

Question 3

In the early 1990’s, this type of music started emerging and focused on criminal lifestyles, denigration of women, drugs, and guns.

Answer 3

Gangsta Rap

Question 4

How many Black men were missing?

Answer 4

1.5 MILLION

Question 5

Where did Hip hop originate from?

Answer 5

The civil right movement.

Question 6

Maintain credibility or having “Street-Cred” had 3 approaches, what were they?

Answer 6

1. Embrace the white mainstream, middle-class audience
2. Return to the hood
3. Stage gun battle for public consumption.

Question 7

What were the 3 promises of Hip Hop?

Answer 7

1. Sense of Black male identity
2. Upward mobility
3. Power

Question 8

Hyper-masculinity

Answer 8

Exaggeration of male stereotypical behaviour; emphasis on physical strength, aggression, and sexuality.