Sociology Final Flashcards
Preverbial Dangling Carrot
Keeping up with the Jones
Capitalism
An economic system in which property and goods are primarily privately owned; private decisions determine investments and prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined primarily by competition
T/F America is a corporation
True
How do corporations beat out their competition?
Cut corners and remove alienation amongst individuals by removing connections that are person to person
2 Main Functions of Schools
Educate
Socialize
Adam Smith on Competition
Competiton=Cohesive Society
What does Karl Marx believe about Capitalism?
Capitalism=Alienation
Capitalism Leads to
Exploitation
Commodified cation of the worker
Corruption of Morals
Alienation
How does the upper class Earn Wealth?
No inherited
Schools are described as
Sorting Machines
Coleman Report Says
Student background and socioeconomic status are much more important in determining educational outcomes than are measured differences in schools
Tracking Problem
This process reproduces social inequalities
Charismatic Authority
Authority that rests on the personal appeal of an individual leader
Legal-Rational Authority
Authority is based on legal, impersonal rules; the rules rule
Traditional Authority
the authority that rests on the appeal to past traditions
Hidden Curriculum
The nonacademic and less overt socialization functions of schooling
Collective Action Theory
This takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation
Hard Power
Attained through threat and coercive action
Soft Power
Attained through the use of cultural attractiveness
Dominant Class
Controls not only marital production but also the production of ideas
Feudalism
A pre-capitalist economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, serfs and fiefs
Milgram experiment
An experiment devised in 1961, by a psychologist at Yale University, to see how far ordinary people would go to obey an authority figure
Unions
An organization of workers designed to facilitate collective bargaining with an employer
Offshoring
A business decision to move all or part of a company’s operations abroad to minimize costs
