Exam 2

Rural Sociology 1000 with Grigsby at University of Missouri- Columbia

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Nature

Human genetic makeup

Nurture

Environment or interactions and experiences

Internalization

Process in which people take as their own and accept as binding the norms values beliefs that others are passing on to them

Socialization

Process of developing a sense of self and learning the ways of the society in which one lives

depends on meaningful interaction

which depends on significant symbols

Mead and Cooley

theories suggest self awareness and identity develop from relationships with others and reflexive thinking is looking at self from the perspective of another

Role taking

stepping outside yourself and imagining from anothers perspective

Cooley looking glass self

people act as mirrors of one another

Mead role taking

Preperatory mimic

Play

game

Resocialization

discarding old values and developing new ones with new environment

Collective memory

experiences shared by a sig. number of people

preserved and passed on by many

9/11

significant others

ppl important in an individuals life that greatly influence them

in noodling father uncle or grandfather ranked high in the pecking order

Group

people sharing distinct identity and feeling a sense of belonging to one another interacting directly or indirectly

Primary group

has face to face contact and strong emotional ties amoung members

share family languae descent etc.

Maslows hierarchy of needs

Self actualization

Esteem

Love

Safety

aphysiological

Self actualization

using highest capacity and potential in the world

greater than self and esteem

value of self as a person

Ingroup

closely attached particularly when group is against another outgroup

Gemeinschaft

Rural

feeling of community

interactions intimate

cooperation and unity

tasks and relationships not separated

little privacy

informal control dominates

less tolerance deviance

ascribed statuses

social change limited

Gesselschaft

Urban

little sense of commonality

social interactions are task specific

self interest dominates

task preformed is paramount

privacy is valued

formal social control is evident

greater tolerance of deviance

more emphasis on acheived statuses

Social change very evident

How does advertising target children?

commercials designed to be appealing

brand licensing

ads in schools

intergrated system tv computers ipods etc.

Nag factor?

tantrums and repeating request for items

How has childrens consumerism changed?

more buying power and influence on parents decisions

70s what happened?

regulating ads targeting children under 8

80s what happened?

deregulation

FDC no longer allowed to regulate ads Reagan

Children and result of consumerism

want more and more right now

more then 1 media at a time

no time to just be kids

Bureacracy

clear cut division of labor

hierarchy

written rules

everythng recorded in standard format

authority belongs to position

utilitarian approach to activism

IBP strategies

Plants closer to cattle

imported workers

Continuous flow automated operation

IBP strategies impacted communities

Boom occured

not enough housing

school system proviedes english 2nd language

Rationalization

produact of collective development of science technology and bureacracy

What has contributed to increased hours of work?

long hours=higher incomes

cycle of work

money money money

Factors contributing to rising consumer desires

Keeping up with the Joneses

Top 20% get more and more income

Big 3 in consumption competition

Car drive

House

Clothes

everything is now branded

Aspirational gap? impacts?

Difference b.t. what people want and what they can afford

consumer debt

people unwilling to fund public goods schools parks roads

Impacts of over consumption

Social health decreased

Consumerism substitute for interaction

All natural systems disruppted

more jobs younger people are working

housing market crash

Change pattern of competitive consumption?

Become more self sufficient

Consume less

Less brand buying

deconstruct symbolic meaning of things

no fashion mags going to mall

flexible work hours better vacations

Closed Caste system

ranked on basis of traits over which they ahve no control

Open Caste System

ranked on merit talent ability or past preformance

Acheived characteristics

choice effort ability

aquired intentionally

Ascribed characteristics

from birth

develop over time

no effort no fault

2 upper classes

Upper upper old money

Lower upper new money

3 middle classes

Upper middle professional

Middle class white collar

working class Blue collar

2 Lower classes

Upper lower Unskilled laborers

Lower lower Socially and economically disadvantaged

Negatively priviliged property class

Completely unskilled dependent on seasonal or sporadic employment

very bottom of social class

ositively Priviliged Property class

Top of class system

WASP class and culture

Ascribed statuses

nowing your apart of the class

only bring home people in your class

Priviliged handed things

come from generations of money

Social mobility

movement from 1 social class to another

Vertical mobility

change in class status that corresponds to a gain or loss in rank

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Created: 2011-11-13
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Views: 85

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