Sociology cards
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- What is socialization
- It is a process of getting physical, social and mental skills for survival as an individual and member of society. It begins when you are first able to understand what is going on about you and ends when you die.
- Agencies of socialization
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the groups of people along with the interactions that occur within those groups. -people you are surrounded by throughout your life
Childhood-parents
adolescence-peers
adulthood-coworkers
retirement-other retirees - Social construction of self
- Who you are is modeled by your interactions with other people.
- Nature Vs. Nurture
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Nature-biology
nurture-sociology
-both key factors in social environment - cooley's looking glass
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everyone is a mirror to oneanother
-we imagine how we appear to other people
-we imagine how other judge our appearance
-we form a self-feeling based on how we feel other people judge us - Meade's contribution
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George Herbert Meade
I-creativity, idiosyncracy, unique
Me- What is natural for me?
2-3 imagination-mimic
3-5 years-play
5-death-playing the game of LIFE - Gender Socialization
- gender identity according to cultural norms
- deviance
- a behanvior that violates the norms of a particular societ-the bad people of the world
- ceasare lombroso
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prominent foreheads
shifty eyes
red hair
physical features
stacy fry - Karl Marx/CONFLICT/CRITICAL THEORY
- deviance lies outide the individual
- Robert K.Merton-Theory of structural strain
- Society teaches us that we must acheive a certain status---If we cannot do that we will take bad, deviant measures
- Labeling Theory
- when someone tells you to stop doing something you wish to rebel into deviance: go against the norms of society
- differential association
- Army recruitment-marines
- Collective Behavior
- Millions mom march-- large group with gernerally the same feelings and opinions
- Social Movement-6 components
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attmept to change/uphold an opinion or belief in society
-Revolutionary- civil rights
-Reformist- gay right
-Conservative-mimi
-Reactionary-kkk
-Expressive- punk movement-how you dress, music you listen to, etc.
-Millenarian-expressive combined with revolutionary - Relative Deprivation
- Retirees who go to Canada for cheaper prescription drugs
- Free Rider Probelm
- fire house example-don't get money but the dep. will put a fire out at your house
- Cycles of protest
- Protest spread from larger cities to smaller towns
- Collective Action Frames
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Thought process that makes you believe what your doing is "OK"
-Injustice-dog attacked julie
-Agency-my neighborhood
-identity-neighborhood vs. dog family - Population Explosion
- given amount of people in a place
- crude birthrate
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# of births occuring in a year divided by midyear popluation
Kids born/midyear popultaion= crude birth rate - Crude death rate
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# of deaths occuring within a year divided by midyear population
Deaths/midyear population= crude death rate - rate of reproductive change
- Crude birth rate- crude death rate= rate of reproductive change
- Demographic transition
- technology-better meds-better healthcare-people are living longer and the infant deathrate has decreased
- urbanization
- refers to the total proportion of the population that is concentrated in urban settlements
- Decentralization
- outlying areas become more important at the expence of the central city--front royal & d.c.
- social change
- Change in male and female social status from fifties until today. famrlands-industry
- Macro
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Population growth
GLOBALIZATION-world wide - middle
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urbanization
-crime increase - Micro
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rising material expectations
changing norms - Modernization
- society keeping up with the latest technology- front royal jr. high
- World systems theory-- Immanuel Wallerstein
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core states- US
Semi peripheral-mexico
peripheral-africa