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| the transformation over time of the institutions and culture of society |
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| A SHAC reading by George Ritzer, argues that in modern society, the new model of rationalization is the fast food restaurant and that rationality has irrational consequences |
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| Features of rational society |
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| Efficiency, Predictability, Calculability, Nonhuman technology and automation, Control over uncertainty |
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| Irrationality of Rationalization |
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| Large Lecture Classes, Unhealthy food and bad health, Alienating work, Multi-tasking and Shopping for "deals" are all ways rationalization leads to "unreasonable" outcomes |
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| A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect |
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| Loosely or tightly organized collective efforts by relatively powerless groups to affect social or political change operating outside of institutionalized political channels |
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| A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little social regualtion |
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| Major Players in Globalization; Global Financial Organizations; Lending to developing nations |
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| Free Markets, Deregulation, Reduce Social Benefits, Privatization |
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| Tenet of Neo-Liberalism; to facilitate trade and and ease flow of capital |
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| Tenet of Neo-Liberalism; reduce the size of government and its regulation of business activty |
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| Tenets of Neo-liberalism; Government provided healthcare, public education, public transportation, welfare etc |
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| Tenet of Neo-Liberalism; selling publicly owned and operated services to private and for private companies |
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| Increases Global Inequality, Increasing Global Poverty, Environmental degradation, risks to democracy |
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| Many people working together can take down large opponents |
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| Goals of Social Movements |
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| Redistribute material resources more equitably; Gain Full citizenship; Redefine society's values, norms and priorities |
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| Characteristics of Social Movements |
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| operate primarily outside institutional political system; Arise due to a groups exclusion from "normal" institutionalized political channels; are almost always resisted by those in positions of power and privilege |
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| Withholding their consent; Refusing to participate in everyday life; denying others their labor; most effectively when done collectively |
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| Civil Disobedience; Street Protests; Strikes; Boycotts |
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| Elite Responses to Social Movements |
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| Repression using violent and non-violent means; co-optation of issues by adopting movement issues or recruiting its leaders; De-legitimizing strategies; Covert efforts |
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| From Berger; we pretend we dont have a choice in something but in fact we do |
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| Action that takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation |
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| Theory of collective action stating that collective action happens when people with similar ideas and tendencies gather in the same place |
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| Theory of collective action claiming that collective action arises because of the tendency of people to conform to the behavior of others |
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| Theory of collective action emphasizing the influence of leaders in promoting particular norms |
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| Social organization characterized by concentric circles of social affiliation, a low degree of division of labor, relatively undeveloped technology, and traditional social norms |
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| Social Organization Characterized by rationality, bureaucratization, and objectivity- as well as individually created by non-concentric, but overlapping, group affiliations |
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| A condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress and history, the replacement of narrative with pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations |
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- Environmental and Population Pressures
Natural Disasters; changing food supplies
-Cultural and Technological Innovation
Automobile, cell phones, medical treatments, et
-Social Movements
Civil Rights, Women’s, and Environmental |
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