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evidence of present relationships;
based on social context;
people interpret the context |
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| social value a person claims by the lines others assume he has taken |
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| maintanence of one's face |
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C. Wright Mills
ability to take individual experience and relate it to larger social context
biography fit into a history
public issues/private troubles |
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how individuals participate in the creation of their perceived reality
1.collective/interactive process 2.consensus 3.ongoing 4. subject to conflict/negotiation..ex: money/langauge |
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| private troubles = public issues |
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| swine flu affected international relations; drug addiction should be treated as public health problem not criminal problem |
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| increase in economic inequality; attacks on racial, gender, sexual orientation inequality |
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| study of social inequality in its various forms |
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| groups of people with similar life chances due to shared economic position |
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| groups of people regarded as being similar in honor, respect, or prestige |
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| can include income and wealth; complicated |
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| The New Deal and WWII- 1930s-40s |
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| wars tend to be periods of pushing for equality; taxes go up in war and down in peacetime |
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1. skill based technological change
2. need for education (more ppl return to school)
3. industrialization destroyed certain skills/crafts
4. less demand for unskilled labor |
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| if children/ppl are indoctrinated with certain belifes they will come back to church and be good ppl bc of morality embedded in them |
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| Jesuit Maxim - Sociological Terms |
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| our place in society is important in the context of childhood bc it is determinative of where we will end up - class=outcome? |
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| social forecasting (Daniel Belle) |
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| the working out of the implication so f a set of relationships |
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| the process by which one learns how to behave in society and learns how o form an identity in that social group |
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| Lorrie Moore - "Ppl like tht r the only ppl here" NYer |
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| baby in hospital - mother feels as if hospital is alien-overwhleming strangeness-cant understand doctor-doesnt know social norms for hospital-is socialized; wears pants and sneakrs of other mothers etc |
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| asymmetric in doctor/patient roles |
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1.doctor is active/patient is passive
2. imbalance in knowledge/power (who asks Qs)
3. radically different perspective (illness is routine/crisis) |
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| the ability to define meaning and reality |
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| someone gives you orders and you follow them (cultural is one step above social authority) |
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| fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) |
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| abnorma development in a fetus due to alcohol consumption; SC: shows responsibility of mother;child abuse? conflict of interest |
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