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Technology Unit Flashcards

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Cultural Lag Theory

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  • Technology drives social change
  • occurs when non-material culture can’t adapt to new material conditions (technology).
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McLuhan’s 4 Laws of Media

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  • Enhance (Enhancing an ability): Enhances the ability to speak to each other
  • Obsolete (Getting rid of an ability): Writing on paper
  • Retrieve (Medium recovers which was previously lost): Talk to people at long distances
  • Flip (What does the medium reverse/flip into when pushed to extremes?): Social Media
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Future Shock

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the effect of too much change in too short a period of time

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Technosis

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not knowing how to function successfully without technology

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Technostress

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distress caused by being overwhelmed by technology

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Relative deprivation

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feeling of discontent or dissatisfaction based on comparison to someone else

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Neo-Marxism -
Economic power

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Has and the have-nots (rich vs poor).

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Learning Theory

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  • Behaviour is learned
    Technological Perspective: Do violent video games make people violent?
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Neo-Marxism -
Institutions

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Created power dynamics between the “haves” and “have-nots”. Society is set up so the rich can always stay rich.

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Psych Behaviourism -

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  • Is Google making us stupid?
  • Diminished incentive to remember facts/information
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Sociology:
Neo-marxism -

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  • The Internet is another way for the powerful elite to repress the average citizen
  • Internet is full of advertisements which are fulfilled by the wealthy
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Biometrics

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measurement and statistical analysis of people’s unique physical and behavioral characteristics. Ex. Beauty detector

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Anthropology

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Determinist perspective, the internet has taken on a life of its own.
We can no longer control it – for good or bad.

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Smart Wallet

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Apple pay, online credit, etc.

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Evolution of Communication through technology

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The Evolution of Language
- Short Form, etc.
Evolution of spell check

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Milgram-six degrees of separation

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people are connected by an average of six social connections

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Conspicuous consumption

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purchasing and displaying goods or services primarily to demonstrate one’s wealth, status, or social standing

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What are the different forms of social inequality

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racism
sexism
transgender oppression
heterosexism
classism
ableism
religious oppression
ageism

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Social Stratification

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structured systems of inequality that rank people according to a hierarchy

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What is the difference between open and closed systems

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Open systems -
Achievement based economic system
Closed systems -
Social status is ascribed by birth, how the rich stay rich.

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Achieved vs. Ascribed Status

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Achieved -
Achieved status is attained through an individual’s efforts or action

Ascribed -
assigned at birth or based on inherent characteristics like race, gender, or family background.

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Determinants of Social Deviance

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location
age
social status
societal differences

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Functionalist
(Social Deviance)

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Deviance is common and necessary, defines appropriate behaviour

Societal norms are reinforced by punishing and/or correcting non-normative behaviour (Parents disciplining their children)

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What is the strain theory? (Robert Merton)

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If there is a gap, they are more likely to partake in deviant behaviour

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Conflict Theorist

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individuals with lower incomes and impoverished backgrounds are more likely to have their actions labeled as criminal

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Symbolic Interactionist perspective on Social Inequality & Social Deviance

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deviant tendencies are a result of learned behaviors rather than inherent traits

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Social stigma and how it relates to deviance

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negative beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes that society holds about a particular group or characteristic

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Who created the theories for functionalist perspective? (Hint: there is 2)

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Strain Theory - Robert Merton
Control Theory - Travis Hirschi

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Who created the theories for symbolic interactionist?

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Differential Association Theory - Edwin Sutherland
Labeling Theory - Howard Becker

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Who created the theories for conflict theorists?

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Karl Marx -
A critical approach to deviance

23
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Meritocracy

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selected to fill positions of power based solely on their ability

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Socialization

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individuals learn societal norms and attitudes, including those related to stigmatized groups or conditions.

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Credentialism

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shift towards the need for extensive qualification and credentials

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