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Sociology 201 with Davidson at University of Delaware

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Created: 2011-04-25
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material culture

artifacts of society that represent adaptation to the social and physical environment (car)

heteronomative culture

culture in which heterosexuality is accepted as the normal, taken-for-granted mode of sexual expression

institutionalized norm

pattern of behavior within existing social institutions that is widely accepted in society

intersexual

individual whose sexual differentiation is either incomplete or ambiguous

social darwinism

people are animals and are driven by the same dynamic that other animal species are, human being are the way they are due to instincts (inborn traits)

-survival of the fittest

Biological view

people are animals of some sort and share characteristics with animals

theological view

people derive their nature though some relationship with a higher being or some sort of spiritual characteristic that is inborn

environmental determinist view

Determines what we are (focused on most by sociologists)

-everyone is different because we all experience different environments

"Class and Conformity"

-Study by Melvin Kohn (wanted to know how blue and white collar parents punished children)

-white collar: if accident= not punished, on purpose=punished

-blue collar- punished based on severity of rule broken

Unequal Childhoods

-A.Lareau

-Social class reproduces itself

-Concerted cultivation- mid class=learn skills to get them a mid class job

-accomplishment of natural growth=skills to get them a working class job

1st and 2nd sense of self

1- recognize yourself (18 mo.)

2- speech

who came up with looking-glass self

Cooley

Videbach's Study of College Speech Class

2 groups= 1 negative feedback, 1 positive feedback

-all began confident but at the end of the class the negative feedback groups sowed a decrease in their confidence

Rist Study of Kindergarten Class

Teacher unconciously placed students based on economic stance and interacted with the "best off" group more than the other 2

Gilfer Books

(1960s) -reinforced gender stereotypes

-girls underrepresented 11:1

-girls being saved, boys are heros (never cry)

-girls always indoors

-attempts to remove these in 1980s

purpose

when people interact with different people they show sides of themselves that they believe others will like and will respond to favorably

-ex: job interview

limits

social cutes can change the way people view you

-ex: a man interviewer may be against to women holding high positions means the woman is automatically limited

Remedies for spoiled identities

-forge ahead (Bill Clintion)

-Apology

Garfinkel Study

Told students to act as stranger to parents

parents were confused, then searched for meaning, blame the children

-more than half of the students couldnt do it

Role Distance

if there is more than 1 expectation but we dont care about 1 of them

prof considers himself more of a researcher than a prof so if he gets bad teaching reviews he wont care

embraced role

one role is so important to defining who we are that we ignore everything else and only focus on this one rold

prescribed role

if you were to sit down and write down the generalized expectation of students you would be writing down the ________ _____

perceived role

individual interpretation of what the expectations are

performed role

behavior that actually gets done by people who play certain roles

Festinger et al. Study

-Wanted to know how groups formed (Post WWII)

-groups formed between people who lived near each other (proximity)

-cul-de-sac and dorms fit same pattern

Cohesiveness

measure of strength of the bonds among the group members

-low turn over

-if too cohesive it can limit effectivieness

H Fischer

-Over Eater Anonymous

-1st stepNewcomers=baby

-5th Recovering Compulsive Over Eater- if they started eating a lot again they would fall back to 2nd step (people with families failed more often)

Malcom Gladwell

Small Change- responding to wave of euphoria whenever there is a social change movemnt

Mark Franovetter

"The Strength of Weak Ties"

strong ties are important but weak ties are too

-if only weak ties your going to lose because you don't have the core of support

Aspects of Bureaucracy

-Knowledge

-Coordination (mechanism, hierarchy)

-Penetration (outside world can't leak in)

-Flexibility

Rational System Perspective- ORGANIZATION

rationally designed tools to achieve certain goals/purposes (beat way to look at organizations)

Natural System Perspective-ORGANIZATION

organizations are just like any other groups

March Of Dimes

-Organizations will do anything/everything to stay "alive"

-Polio then premature birth now pertussis

Big Brothers/Big Sisters

Organizations will relocate to stay alive

-Example of this is :

Organizational environments

those elements with which the organization has regular contact

Gemenschaft

-Frederick Toennies

concerned with each other's welfare

-"relationships between people are relatively informal and intimate regardless of the place it takes place in

Gesellschaft

-Frederick Toennies

based on individualism

-USA

laws

formalized codes of conduct, have consequences if broken

Problem mores

values and beliefs change and laws stay the same- makes it difficult to enforce (ex: sex between same sex couple) it becomes difficult to enforce them

Autocratic

purely top down communication

-1 way communication- my way or highway

-Lassiez faire

across communication

-The group collectively leads itself

-Democratic

2 way communication between leader and a group

-Group expresses what they want and leader takes this into account as he/she makes rules

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