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| a persons location in an organization or network |
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| the expected behavior of a status |
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| Founder of social psychology, came up with social model of the self |
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| Mead says it is social- without others you cant have it |
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| the active part of the self |
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the active part of the self
not functional by itself, must be influenced by others |
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| an object within the self- how others look at us, past actions...how do i fit in? |
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| generic other person, the audience in our mind |
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| connections between people in a group, the image of these connections (viewed like a chart or graph) |
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| someone who serves as a middleman between two people, a link |
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| a part of a network where connections are clustered, think of clusters on the graph |
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| the conceiveale number of connections a person has in a network |
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| Social capital in the 50s and 60s |
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| was good until 1969 and then it started to decrease |
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| public good versus private good |
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public-something everyone can benifit from even if they dont contribute to it, like a neighborhood watch
private-you must contribute to it to reap the benifits
both types of social capital |
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social capital that either
reaches out to different groups
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builds bonds within a group.
which is better? |
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| relationship between soc. capital and soc. networks |
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| networks must be formed by relationships that are based on trust and reciprocity |
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social capital where you dont need immeadiate payback
ex-helping someone on the side of the road or picking up someones books |
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about the decline in social capital and why it happened.
What-Why-Consequences-Problem Solving |
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| Religous participation and soc. capital |
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| it builts relationships and also teaches social skills |
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| religous participation trends |
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| participation is decreasing. They may still believe, but they arent attending church |
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Catholic
Jewish
Liberal Prot
Conservative Prot |
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The first three adn lots of bridging social capital, which is good, but their numbers are decreasing.
conservatives are increasing, but it is only bonding so it defeats the purpose |
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| change caused by the overall aging in society |
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A set of people born in the same general time frame, they will be very similar.
baby boomers, gen X, etc. |
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| A given historical context affects those living in it |
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a set of birth years that see themselves as a distinct group,
cohort effect centered around a generation |
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replacement of generations due to death.
putnam says that social trust declined byecause of this
aka generational succession, Intercohort effect, generational effect |
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eash generation trusts a smaller % of people.
4 different cohorts |
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| generational decline in voting |
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change occurs from generation to generation, the younger ones vote.
stays consistent in a given generation, just like trust |
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| organizational health and decay |
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there are more partisan organizations,
but people are less committed, dont volunteer, vote, go to meetings
people give money instead of time |
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| Putnam;s indicators in local politics |
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cant use only membership numbers
served as officer, on a comittee.
wants ACTIVE involvement |
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| involvement in organizations-evidence? |
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same as political organization,
looking for ACTIVE involvement |
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| assessment of honesty and trust |
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crime rate, increase in lawyers, increase in wills, contracts, etc.
all indicate a decrease of trust |
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| indicates more crime, and more social laywers cause people odnt trust each other and need to legally work out contracts, etc. |
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| someone who interacts in an informal, communal and positive affective way |
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| someone who interacts to ge tthings done |
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| Telephones and social capital |
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| kidna increases bonding capital, but not much else. gives a false allusion of creating more than it does. |
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| interned increasing social capital |
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virtual communities
lack of prejudice
flatter heirarchies |
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| internet decreasing social capital |
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poor people cant get on computers
breaking into homogeneous groups
non verbal communication-trus is lost |
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| the breaking into small, homogeneous groups on the internet...bad for social capital |
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| someone who benifits from social capital but doenst contribute to it |
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what must be sacrificed to help others.
trust goes up, cost goes down |
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| its declining, and this is bad bcause people who do it are more likley to be civically onvolved |
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| generational differences in TV viewing |
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we watch tv without a purpose, surf channels
older generations watch for a reason and are selective |
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| why is tv not compatible with community life |
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its wasting time that you're not in the community
-litte real world on tc
-very individualized |
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| 3 towns with 0,1, and 4 channels. the more channels, the less social capital and trust. ex-locks on the houses |
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| negative link btw TV and community involvement |
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-time consuming
-psychological effects
-content promots cynicsm and distrust |
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educatied, affluent, but also individualistic and toleant.
they should be involved but they arent.
less informed |
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not as much economic sucess,
disengaged, pessimistic and cynical |
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| what social forces make generations different? |
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| great depression, WWII, any major event |
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Social capital in the
South
Upper Midwest |
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| low capital and high capital |
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| soc. Capital associated withchildrens caheivement |
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| informal forms of soc capital are more important than formal |
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| catholic schools are better than public schools says putnam |
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more social capital among parents, teachers, principles.
a denser network. |
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