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Roshomon Effect
The phenomena that two or more people can observe the same event but see it differently
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Exurban Utopias
Communities with LARGE family homes
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Max Weber
Rationalization and Burealcracy
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Karl Marx
Class inequaity and conflict
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Emile Durkheim
Social forces affect
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Harriet Martineau
British social reformer
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Jane Adams
American social reformer
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W.E.B. Dubois
African American who pioneered survey work in the U.S.
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What are some contemporary careers in sociology ?
Journalists, demographers, counselors, social services, survey researchers, etc to name a few
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Ascribed Status
Determined at birth
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Achieved status
Aquired through the individual's own effort
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Master Status
Dominates all of a person's other status'
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Role
Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
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Max Weber's Theory of Social Stratification
- Includes class, status and power
- Social prestiage (status) important aspect of theory
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Core States
Europe, US, Japan (Richer countries)
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Semiperipheral areas
Mexico, Brazil (Middle class)
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Peripheral areas
Africa, Asia, Haiti (Poor areas)
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How has globalization affected us today in the U.S. ?
- A process is building connections between the othe regions of the world.
- Ex. Food, fashion, music, animae, etc
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What are Social Institutional Apparatuses ?
A complex social structure embedded with power and economic relations.
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What is happening to our economy ?
Ours is shrinking while other economies are growing/expanding
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Capitalism
Selling things to others
- Ex. "Kidneys for Sale" story
- Ebay
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What is Economy ?
Those organizations and processes through which good and services are produced (dentists), distrubted, and consumed.
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