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Exam 2
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Undergraduate 1
01/11/2015

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Durkheim's theory of urbanism and how DOL  changes the way in which people do social organization
Definition

-Divide up the labor so everyone is doing something different.

-Organic Solidarity or mechanical solidarity.

-Where there is simpler DOL

Term
Features Max Weber identifies as necessary for a social structure to resemble an urban environment. (5) things
Definition

In order for something to be a city must have trade, commercial relations and display:

1. Place for protection 2.A market to trade goods and services 3. Regulation system 4. form of association 5. autonomy and autocephally

Term
Community lost (-)
Definition
Social ties in cities
Term
Community saved (+)
Definition
Survival of neighborhood ties and support
Term
Community liberated
Definition

Constraints of space

(people forming relationships outside of the neighborhood)

Term
Describe how social ties can be assets as well as hinderances
Definition

Social capital with vietnameese using solidarity.

 

Hinderance- KKK a solidaristic group, doesn't help

Term
What ways were ethnic groups able to be integrated in to American society.
Definition

White ethnics could take a straightline approach.

 

Blacks used ethnic enclaves, not straightline approach.

Term
The factors which influence the formation of minority groups.
Definition

Social Capital through ethnic solidarity

Human Capital

Education

Personal finances

Minority status

Term

Simmel

Nervous/City effects us

Definition

What urban experience did to the way people behaved.

 

1. The intensity of nervous stimuli or sensation in the city

2. The markets effect on urban relations

Term

Weber

Ideal city

Definition

The ideal type city.

City as a marketplace, fortress, autonomy and form of association.

 

Term

Spengler

Soul

Definition
The city has a soul, subjects humans to the city.
Term

Park

Naturey

Definition
The city as an ecolgy of natural areas, generates a moral code.
Term

Wirth

Population size, density and heterogeneity

Definition

Population size,

density and

heterogeneity

Term

Tonnies

Rural vs Urban

Definition

Geminschaft Rural vs Gessellschaft Urban

Comminal plight                   commercail individualism

Term

Maine

Status VS Contract

Definition

Status: Family

Contract: Formalized individual responsibility

Term

Durkheim

Solidarity

Definition

Mechanical VS Organic

Mechanical- common experience and collective cohesiveness.

Organic- DOL and interdependence

Term
Social Networks
Definition
Provides useful framework for relationships
Term
Higly connected social network
Definition
Rural area
Term
Dispersed social network
Definition
Urban areas
Term
Ethnic enclaves
Definition

A place where races or ethnic groups can come and be with people just like them.

 

Term
Requirements for a successful enclave
Definition

1. presence of immigrants with business experience.

2. capital

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Mutual assistance societies and religious institutions
Definition
Branch out and help out communities
Term
Political machines
Definition

provided a buffer

integrated immigrants into a formal institution

Term
Federal government
Definition
after 1930's more formalized education programs and benefits
Term
Mass media
Definition
Caused drama and told people what they wanted to hear
Term
Black Codes
Definition
Segregation spacially and mobily
Term
Jim Crow law
Definition

-freed slaves, but promise was taken away

-started to build own institutions

-industrializing and urbanizing

Term
1800s-1900s
Definition

-era of rapid inustrial expansion

-blacks migrated to northern industries

-race is behind social class

Term
1880
Definition

Technological advancements in south

Blacks live mainly in south

 

Term
1890
Definition
major industry centers get blacks
Term
1910
Definition

89% still lived in south 11% in urban

Business owners start to recruit blacks needed cheap laborers

promised blacks better quality of life

Term
1920
Definition
over 15% blacks went to industries
Term
1940
Definition

77% in south

were migrating from south to north

rapid urbanization

whites and blacks were both moving to urban areas. (white flight)-Whites moving out as blacks move in

Term
2010
Definition
88% live in urban 12% rural
Term
late 19th century early 20th century
Definition

upperclass african americans

lower wages for blacks

urban removal

 

Term
Du bois
Definition

housing patterns

bad housingwith high rent

had to live close to employer, bad transportation

Term
Why dont some groups melt and others dont
Definition

assimulation

adapting to norms and values

Term
why does so much black/white segregation persist today
Definition
increase in status, improves social mobility
Term
Ethnicity
Definition

Cultural

Latino, mexican etc

Term
minority group
Definition

political

handicap, homosexual etc.

Term
assimulation
Definition
one way process
Term
acculturation
Definition
pick and choose; multiple way process
Term
quota system
Definition
to keep different ethnicity #s the same
Term
Various paths and hurdles to integration
Definition

-language learning for jobs

-recreate social structures/support

-forces that the city creates

Term
Pan ethnic solidarity
Definition
no N.irishor S.irish just irish
Term
interethnic conflict
Definition
conflict between different ethnic groups
Term
Preserved ethnicity
Definition
view of old traditions-> give and take some traditions
Term
Recaptured ethnicity
Definition
newcomers rejecting the authenticity of their ethnicity
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