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| the sociological imagination |
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| mills: the relation between ones own personal biography to the greater scheme of history |
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individual problems vs. societal problems
not making rent vs. poverty in general |
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| when an individual loses his/her identity to the crowd (in a positive emotional way) |
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| sociology examines the role of religion in and between societies |
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| intended purpose vs. unintended purpose |
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| the ability of make others act in your best interest |
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| very important objects vs. mundane objects |
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| similar characteristics of all religions according to Durkheim |
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| totemic items, sacred gathering places, followers, bound by morals |
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| the stranger and the prostitute |
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both have functions in society
stranger: manifestation of all of societies insecurities as well as an entity to bring together all of society by outcasting the stranger
prostitute: to define immoral behavior |
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| the 1950's and functionalism remembering the past |
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| ideal family lifestyle portrayed by the media; not "cracked up" to what it is defined as |
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| the protestant work ethic |
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based on the ideas of calvinistic predestination:
the reason why people are rich is because they are destined to be that way (social darwinism) |
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| hard work and asceticism in the creation of capitalism |
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| must work hard to make money, but not spend it |
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| weber and the iron cage of rationalization |
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| society is becoming increasingly ordered due to the growth of capitalism |
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| ritzer and the mcdonaldization of society |
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| efficiency, calculability, predictability, control, are all demonstrated through capitalism today |
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| marx's problem with profit |
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| the labor manually works to create the wealth for the wealthy, while they get very little |
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| use value and exchange value |
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| the proletarian vs. the bourgeoisie |
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| the working class vs. the ruling class |
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| weber and what makes the state different from everybody else |
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| the state is the only entity that is able to use violence legally; they have a monopoly over force |
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| the west thinks that they have a better understanding of the east than the east does |
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| noble savages and "Magical Black People" |
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wise, compassionate, untouched by society, peaceful, innocent and childlike
meant to show that white people "brought blacks out of their native ways" and into civilization (parent and child relationship) |
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| the mode of production pre and post capitalism |
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pre:individuals working separately on individual industries, agricultural
post: assembly lines, uniform |
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| mode of production (capitalism) vs. common sense created by the base (capitalism) |
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| human labor in relation to money and machines |
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| all relations are reduced to monetary relations; man is reduced to working like a machine |
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| workers are alienated form what they produce because they are unable to afford it |
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| religion is the opiate of the masses |
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| why the proletarian revolution is different |
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| because it is the first revolution of the majority |
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marx never predicted nationalism
the stupid masses
the fall of capitalism
new world order
workers of the world unite |
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| something society makes up, concepts interactions of individuals, values, ideas, measuring success systematically: communities, money, race, gender, media, education |
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| applying your sociological imagination through individuals and social structures |
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| process of becoming you; on going changes learned; conformity; control |
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competition with money, inequalities based on class
where money= respect, power, security, freedom, house, education, healthcare |
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| what marx says about capitalism |
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it is a social organization based on the exploitation of those who own capital/power
it is a worldwide system that determines laws, politics, culture, ideologies |
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women and children face poverty more harshly than men
IQ has nothing to do with wealth
middle class is vanishing since 1982 |
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| the noble savagery of being poor |
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| once you are labeled as something you are unable to shake yourself from the label; a self-fulfilling prophecy |
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| discourse on race and poverty |
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| "white trash" is different than just regular trash; what people aren't usually "trash: |
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| the seven lesson school teacher- gatto |
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Hidden cirriculum
-information is meaningless
-school is to learn to follow directions
-emotional dependence
-doesn't matter what you are learning, just that you learned |
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| pierre bourdieu: distinction between wanting to be like the rich and wanting to have money |
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| to have class is different from being upper class |
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Patricia Hill Collins: the matrix of domination--
thinking about how each part of one's identity relates to one another by race, sex, class |
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| achieved status vs. ascribed status |
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| something you have done (an ability or completion) vs. a status that is uncontrollable (age, sex, race, etc.) |
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| not fixed; fluid; your race, age, gender, will change in different time/places |
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| slavery in terms of angela davis |
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the black female slave is oppressed during the day time by her race, but is oppressed during the night time by her gender
-the difference between the male/female experience |
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| the family in terms of bell hooks |
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| home is where men oppress women |
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| president must be 5 of the following 6 things |
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| white, male, protestant, wife and kids, heterosexual or passing, wealthy |
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| introduction of protestant work ethic and capitalism |
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| doesn't matter what you learned, but because you graduated and got diploma success is possible |
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| school is a socializing agent |
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| where power becomes knowledge |
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| labeling theory in education |
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| told that you are "special ed" or inferior then you will act inferior |
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| public schools as a site for political struggle |
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school integration (and re-segregation)
the pledge of allegiacen
multiculturalism
english only
evolution/ religious teachings
abstinence only education |
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| pedagogy of the oppresses- paulo freire |
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praxis- action
anti-banking approach
dialogu |
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| inequality between and within schools |
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| imaging urban education in media |
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| black/latino troubled youth; teacher that "saves" kids and inspires them |
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| haraway:teaddy bear patriarchy |
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in order to understand africa hall in natural history museum must understand the history of how it was made and what happened in that process
natural history has nothing to do with what actually happened, but how white men choose to perceive history |
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| white male patriarchy is about control over |
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| other men (natives), nature/beasts, women |
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| how animals dioramas are presented |
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| always in function of nuclear of human families; superior male, subservient females |
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asian americans are more intelligently superior, work harder, etc.
nawn chu: although seemingly complimentary, the myth
-creates unfair higher expectations that damage asian youth identity
-creates discrimination felt by asian groups
Beyond cultural essentialism:
its not that asians are smarter, but that it was the elite that immigrated to the US rather than refugees |
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| history is to the past as science fiction is to the future |
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| history and science fictions both tell us more about our concerns with society today than the past of future |
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| social categories hang together to explain social phenomena |
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minorities are democratized and able to be "seen" in the public eye
shows grotesque and extremes of each group
lower class talking back
paradoxes of visibility
everyone is represented |
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| fabricating authenticity- richard peterson |
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| creation of what authentic is by society |
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a rejection of categories and notion of truth from the enlightenment
a rejection of the "center"
a deconstruction of narrative
a collapsing if time and sapce |
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| an acknowledgement of the past through humor vs. recreating the past without acknowledging that the present exists |
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simulations are beginning to feel real (judge judy)
hyperreality- signs/symbols are more real than the real version |
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the way you frame a picture is through the eyes of men
women bodies are objectified |
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dominant- how meadia tells us to read into things
negotiated-1/2 media, 1/2 your own thoughts
oppositional-rejecting media |
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| art in the age of mechanical reproduction |
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| art has been use for entertainment and to silence the public; if it is used as a pacifier then it can be used to fight back as well |
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then- well learned
new-inner cty |
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change in a neighborhood stemmed from white upper class moving into areas with poor people (blacks and latinos) due to
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-government
-diversity |
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| a physical area vs. an abstract location |
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| zoning that controls where people are allowed to go without people realizing what is happening |
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neo-urbanization
spreading of urbanization due to poverty instead of industry; state with withdrawing form responsibility for its citizens |
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| people in guatemala live off of other peoples' trash; they are unable to afford anything else; lost trust in government;"retreat of the state", effects of globalization |
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| "Being sane in insane places" |
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| who's to say who is sane and insane; labeling theory; staff uses writing to justify insanity; social construction |
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| "the prison industry complex" |
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| when a town fails and goes under, prisons remedy the failure by created business in the town; quick fixes for economy, provide jobs, prison for profit, private prisons, benefits politicians, laws, corporations |
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| state sanctioned morality vs. something seen as immoral, but not criminalized |
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somebody breaks a window, but nobody fixes it
-if crime is continually ignored in a neighborhood, and the hood is continually neglected, then crime will continue to increase |
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| gangs as criminal organizations |
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gangs originated as social clubs(political cultural, activity)
culture and identity forces solidarity, groups were held responsible for individual crimes |
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process of labeling young people as criminal deviants; restores old stereotypes of what non-white deviants (lazy, violent, etc.)
labels used to control and explain individuals in the past |
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| restraining order by city against gang; database used to determine defences |
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| urban population outnumbers rural population |
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| when developed countries, use developing countries to their advantage because of free trade laws; make something in one country and sell it in another |
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| how suzie bayer's shirt... |
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| people have learned to make capital on trash, cost even more in africa than in us, rich people not really giving charity, serving themselves |
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| expansion through free trade; capitalism rules world; state retreated from helping the people to helping the large corporations allows nations to produce in one country and sold in another |
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| climbing up the ladder, then kicking it down so no one else can climb up and be successful |
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| places not enforced by IMF which allow consumer good to cross boarders, but not people |
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| world cities- universal language |
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| ny, tokyo, london; world decisions being made by these cities- universal language is english |
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| the case of the Philippines- "homebound"-emotional transnationalism |
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when people take their culture and "home", and bring it across the world with them
-ideas about home are inherited through family
home is a psychological place |
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| poverty is a threat to peace-yunus |
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poverty eliminates all human rights- genocides and wars are caused by poverty
-want to put poverty in a museum
-use gramian bank to eliminate poverty completely (micro loans)99% return rate |
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| culture in algerian rebellion |
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social norms can change drastically
the veil turn from religious symbol to symbol of oppression and suffering |
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| people fighting against neo-liberalism |
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