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| 5056799983 | The browning of America | *Immigration from Latin America and Asia. *U.S. population 300 million. *½ of last 100 million were immigrants and their children. *½ of next 100 million will be immigrants and their children. | 0 | |
| 5056801550 | The graying of America | By 2030 1 of 5 Americans will be 65+ Social Security? Medicare? | 1 | |
| 5056803156 | Inequality gap | Gap between the wealthiest 20% and poorest 20% was: 1960 --30/1 2011-- 75/1 Income of CEO's to workers 1980- 30/1 2011- 1000/1 | 2 | |
| 5056809050 | What % of Americans are poor? | *2008: 1/8 or 12.5% *2013: 1/6 or 16.7% *Assistance through Mass tanf benefits and food stamps plus the 20hr work week requirement puts a family of 4 barely over the poverty line | 3 | |
| 5056820250 | Is comparison to 27 other developed societies, where does the U.S. rank on important indicators of maternal health? | 6 Indicators of mothers' well being: *Maternal mortality- 1 in 4,800 *% using contraception- *% of births by skilled personnel *% of pregnancy with anemia *adult female literacy rate *% women in national government- 17% of seats Fun fact: infant mortality- 5 in 1,000 U.S. RANKS 28th | 4 | |
| 5056824638 | What is the norm violation or individual deviance or norm violation approach to social problems? | actions that violate the norms of a social organization | 5 | |
| 5056825241 | What is the social disorganization approach to social problems? What are the social conditions that have fostered the development of social problems in the past century? | The theory directly links crime rates to neighborhood ecological characteristics; a core principle of social disorganization theory is that place matters. | 6 | |
| 5056825915 | What is meant by the subjective nature of social problems? | A social problem differs by audience and by time, also examines how particular phenomena come to be defined as social problems, focusing on how groups of people actively influence those definitions | 7 | |
| 5056826264 | What is meant by the "objective" reality of social problems? | The notion that societal conditions harm certain segments of the population and therefore are social problems | 8 | |
| 5056827632 | What are some of the dangers in defining social problems objectively? | 1. Different people have different perceptions of social problems; pluralistic society, subjectivity is always present. 2. Tendency to accept definitions provided by those in power. The danger is that we fail to question the inequalities of the existing system, the existing social order | 9 | |
| 5056827633 | How is the distribution of power seen as a social problem? | 10 | ||
| 5056828362 | What is value-free research? What are the problems with value free research? | Designed research that is the most unbiased as possible | 11 | |
| 5056829182 | Who defines social problems? Why do their definitions of problems dominate thought? | Social problems are defined by the people of the society. | 12 | |
| 5056830153 | Institutionalized deviance | This condition exists when the society and its formal organization are not meeting the need of its individuals--often escape criticism and are rarely identified as social problems | 13 | |
| 5056831299 | Self-actualization | 14 | ||
| 5056832034 | The Sociological Imagination | *Stimulated by a willingness to view the world from the perspective of others *Involved moving away from thinking in terms of the individual and their problems on social, economic and historical circumstances that produce the problem *One can shift from the examination of a single family *Requires a detachment from the taken for granted assumptions about social life and establishing a critical distance | 15 | |
| 5056834810 | What is meant by the phrase "Social welfare state"? | Read p. 11 in 13th edition Western Europe, Scandanavia, Canada. | 16 | |
| 5056837515 | Person-Blame approach | From the Situation in which deviants are involved | 17 | |
| 5056838061 | Cultural deprivation | Speak different languages, parents uneducated, no outside school education (museums, zoos, computers, travel, books) | 18 | |
| 5056838624 | System-blame approach | *Whether deviants are the problem itself or only victims of it *Views person blame approach as Blaming the Victim. *Focus is on which groups have or do not have access to good schools, housing, nutrition, jobs, health care, etc. | 19 | |
| 5056841016 | Which groups benefit from the ways in which society is structured? Which groups are harmed? | If you want to understand poverty. Study the wealthy. If you want to understand problems of ethnic minorities, study ethnic majorities. If you want to understand women's issues. Study men. | 20 | |
| 5056841613 | Dangers in extreme view of person and system blame approaches? | 21 | ||
| 5056842108 | Social Darwinism | Social Darwinism explains that only the strong prosper in society. Plays along with Darwin's theory of natural selection, in which the weak will inevitably crumble under the powerful. This plays along with the relationship between the wealthy and the poor. | 22 | |
| 5056842942 | a sociological theory | set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of social and societal events. | 23 | |
| 5056850286 | What is meant by value-free research? Can it be done in sociology? | Probably not, but you can design your research in a way that could potentially show that you were wrong. | 24 | |
| 5056850776 | What is the main thesis of the Eitzen and Zinn book? | Social problems in the U.S result from maldistribution of wealth and power | 25 | |
| 5056851455 | The concentration of wealth? | 26 | ||
| 5056851456 | A shared monopoly or oligopoly? | When four or fewer firms supply 50% or more of a particular market | 27 | |
| 5056852897 | Marx's explanation of capitalism? | Marx predicted that capitalism was doomed by several inherent contradictions that would produce a class of people bent on destroying it. He hypothesized that free enterprise would result in some firms becoming bigger as they eliminate their opposition or absorb smaller competing forms | 28 | |
| 5056853744 | It's (Marx's explanation of capitalism) effects on the population, and the seeds of its destruction? | 29 | ||
| 5056854623 | Megamergers and their effects? | Mergers of banks, communications, oil companies, etc. their effects can include excessive control of money and resources around the world. | 30 | |
| 5056855105 | Interlocking directorates? | Direct interlock- one person serves on board of directors of two corporations. Indirect interlock- two corporations each have a director on the board of directors. | 31 | |
| 5056856265 | How concentrated is wealth in the US? | Concentration of corporate wealth - Wealth in business community is centralized in a relatively few major corporations and this concentration is increasing Concentration of private wealth - capitalism generates inequality. Wealth in concentrated not only in a largest corporations but also among individuals and families | 32 | |
| 5056856894 | How equal/unequal is income distribution in the U.S.? | 33 | ||
| 5056857372 | progressive taxes | A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. The term "progressive" refers to the way the tax rate progresses from low to high, with the result that a taxpayer's average tax rate is less than the person's marginal tax rate. | 34 | |
| 5056858194 | Regressive taxes | A regressive tax is a tax that takes a larger percentage of income from low-income earners than from high-income earners. | 35 | |
| 5056858773 | How are tax cuts distributed | 36 | ||
| 5056859921 | What are the links between economic and political power? | 37 | ||
| 5056859922 | Oligarchy | A government run by the few | 38 | |
| 5056860827 | Monarchy | A government run by a single ruler | 39 | |
| 5056862001 | Plutocracy | A Government by or in the interest of the rich | 40 | |
| 5056862707 | Power Elite | Uses power for its own advantage--power in the US is concentrated in power elite | 41 | |
| 5056864165 | Ways in which interests of the wealthy and powerful are served by the structure of society? 1. Influence of elites over government officials. 2. Systemic Imperatives? 3. Ideological Control? | 42 | ||
| 5056864979 | Power | The ability to get what one wants from someone else, by force, authority, manipulation or persuasion | 43 | |
| 5056865538 | What are some subsidies to big business | Business can conduct its affairs either undisturbed by or encouraged by government, whichever is of greater benefit to the business community Some Examples. P 48. | 44 | |
| 5056866089 | Trickle down solutions | Giving benefits to the wealthy with the assumption that they will put the money back into the economy, trickling down to the lower classes to improve the situation of the poor | 45 | |
| 5056866914 | What is meant by Foreign policy for Corporate Benefit? | 46 | ||
| 5056867344 | What is meant by the best democracy money can buy? | Billions are spent on each federal election campaign | 47 | |
| 5056867830 | What are the three parts of the modernization process? | Industrialization, Urbanization, bureaucratization | 48 | |
| 5056868562 | What are the key ideas in functionalism (manifest function, latent function, dysfunction) conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism? | 49 | ||
| 5056868563 | The key ideas in Social Change and Social Disorganization by Park? | 50 | ||
| 5056869315 | The different types of suicide as explained by Durheim? | Anomic Suicide(occurs when rules break down), Fatalistic Suicide(Occurs when there are too many rules), Egoistic Suicide(Occurs when people are not connected to any social groups), Altruistic Suicide(Occurs when they are killing themselves for the group), Anomic(When the norms are changing too quickly). | 51 | |
| 5056870140 | The stages of social problem development according to Blumer? | 52 | ||
| 5056870141 | What is Meant by "The Symbolic Uses of Politics? | 53 | ||
| 5056870862 | What is Dramaturgical Sociology? | Makes use of concepts that parallel those of stage performances roles, props scenes. People project themselves to be viewed in a certain image | 54 | |
| 5056871443 | Scripts in Dramaturgical Sociology | *vital to interpersonal interaction *script is used to control and limit employee autonomy | 55 | |
| 5064304686 | Costumes in Dramaturgical Sociology | *people are wearing is probably the quickest way to form an impression of them and their social status *Roles that do not involve notions of professionalism may require different types of clothing | 56 | |
| 5064307010 | Stages in Dramaturgical Sociology | Use of the physical environment can establish a context for social interaction; if used skillfully, it can help one team convince the other to adopt the preferred understanding of reality | 57 | |
| 5056871444 | Explain impression management. | 58 | ||
| 5056872265 | Explain conflicting role expectations. | 59 | ||
| 5056872266 | Explain "emotional labor". | It's a form of emotional regulation where workers are expected to display certain emotions as part of their job. They displays these emotion on clients, customers, subordinates or co-workers and so on. | 60 | |
| 5056872636 | Explain the conflict between real self and work self. How does this relate to Marx's observation that "How you work, and for whom you work, defines who you are. | 61 |
