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1950's suburban nuclear family |
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| Coontz's definition of families in the 1950's. A husband and wife living under one roof |
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| A person or family simply can't get enough to eat |
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| Feelings of indifference or hostility not only to work but to the overall framework of industrial production, within a capitalist setting |
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| The process by which different cultures are absorbed into a single mainstream culture |
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| wrote about the sociological imagination |
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| when compared to democracy, tends to be rooted in top-down policies and surveillance (Mcworld-y) |
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| people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production. those who own the means of production (capitalists, industrialists) and those who earn a living by seliing labor to them (working force) |
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| a member of the working class that performs manual labor for an hourly wage |
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| Devoloped theory that societies could be interpretd through symbols. |
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| any activity prohibited by the law |
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| an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures on the planet. (food, language, shelter, etc.) |
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| the values, the language, the symbols, and the norms a certain group follows |
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| behavior falling outside acceptable range according to social norms and values |
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| coined by W.E.B. Du Bois, a way of talking about identity through the lens of the particular experiences of african americans |
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| Saw society as a set of independent parts, each of which could be studied seperately (religion, political system, the family, educational system). all must work together and function as a whole |
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| first hand studies of people |
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| the act of using someone in an unjust, cruel or selfish manner for one's advantage |
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| a group of people directly linked by kin connections |
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| social, cultural, psychological characteristics linked to male and female that define people as masculine or feminine. |
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| how we are taught to act, depending on our sex (girls play with dolls, boys with trucks) |
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| when run-down buildings are renovated as more affluent groups move back into the city, this increases property value |
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| the fact that we all increasingly live in one world, so that individuals, groups, and nations become more interdependent |
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| the emergence of machine production, based on inanimate power resources (like steam or electricity) |
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| strongly developed nation-states in which the majority of the poplulation work in factories instead of agriculture, and most people live in urban areas |
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| computers and electronic communication media such as the internet |
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| patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institutions |
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| a relation of mutual dependence, action, or influence |
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| most important changes were bound up in development of capitalism. devloped the materialist conception of history |
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| a relationship hat links people through blood ties, marriage, or adoption |
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| a rule of behavior established by a political authority and backed by state power. |
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| a socially approved sexual relationship between two individuals |
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| the means whereby the production of material goods is carried on in a society, including not just technology but the social relations between producers |
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| an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures on the planet |
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| Motown, stax, mussel shoals |
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motown - started in detroit
Stax - developed soul
mussel shoals - musical spot in alabama |
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| rules of conduct that specify appropriate behavior in a given range of social situations |
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| according to Emile Durkheim, the social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole |
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| the dominance of men over women |
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| Ethnographer who wrote "crackhouse management". Worked and hung out at crack house |
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| works in a relatively clean, safe environment, in a job that is considered traditionally female |
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| ethnic cultures are given full validity to exist seperately, yet participate in the larger society's economic and political life |
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| society based on the production of information rather than material goods |
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| the belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress. |
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| the process by which the socio-historical designations of race are created and manipulated |
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| the process by which understandings of race are used to classify individuals or groups of people. |
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| the expected behavior of a person occupying a particular social position |
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| the practices of keeping racial and ethnic groups physically seperate, therby maintaining the superior position of the dominant group |
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| biologican characteristics distinguihshing male from female |
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| the existence of structured inequalities between groups in society, in terms of their access to material or symbolic rewards. |
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| the social honor or prestige that a particular group is accorded by other members of a society |
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| wrote the paper on the nuclear family in the 1950's |
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| a method of sociological research in which questionnares are administered to the population being studied |
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| the sociological imagination |
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| the application of imaginitive thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions. |
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| the development of towns and cities |
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| the scientific study of human behavior |
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| a salaried professional or a person whose job is clerical in nature |
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| in weber's view, economic factors are important, but ideas and values have just as much impact on social change |
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| first african american to earn doctorate at harvard. contributed the concept of "double conciousness" to sociology. |
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