SOCIOLOGY FINAL

system based on ascribed status (status from birth)

process by which social movements crystallize b/c of increasing organizational, material etc.

process by which individuals beliefs/values become complementary w/ goals etc. of a movement

negative images of various groups lead to an undervaluing of the lives of some people

measures poverty:

occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political or economic change

Asserts the inevitability of social stratification: some jobs are more important than others

Capitalist countries that are the worlds major sources of capital and technology:

Countries that are former colonies and that are making headway to becoming prosperous

often people are still poor although they are employed. True or false?

since hiroshima, technology is defined as:

Social Capital:

attract disproportionately large # of highly educated from social, ed., cultural fields

4 ways semiperipheral countries differ from peripheral countries:

Risk society: technology distributes environmental dangers among all categories of the pop.

people cooperating, paying more for commodities, and paying higher taxes

global inequality results from the various dysfunctional characteristics of poor societies

begins to define itself and develop a strategy to achieve goals

the so called new social movements set broader goals, new participants, global in scope

changes in the typical features of a society over time

Cultural Capital:

determined by wealth, income, and occupational prestige:

arise when users and society become stuck with tech. and the harmful consequences produced

Assets minus liabilities:

inequality characteristics (modernization theory:

intolerable gap between social rewards people receive/ they expect to receive

the tendency to heap environmental dangers on the disadvantaged, especially minorities

Normal accident: occur inevitably although unpredictably b/c of complexities of modern tech.

success leads to development of an interest group, temporary, may collapse from in/ex pressure

collection of people acting in unison

promote humanity rights as a whole to peace, security, and clean environmental movement

"people are poor because they don't want to work" true or false?

which 4 disasters shifted our thinking about technology?

focus on attributes of people who are poor and ask how these people are different

layering of form the obvious expected consequence to remotely and unpredicted cons. of tech.

"the application of scientific principles to the improvement of human life" up until hiroshima

work toward international agreements to address social problems that affect humanity

Factors in economic success:

countries that are the worlds major sources of raw materials and cheap labour

focuses on the social conditions that allow people to turn disconnect to unified political frce

also called expressive movements

social mobility that occurs between generations

chances for collective action and social movement growth that occur during campaigns, pol. etc.

social origins have major consequences for where you are located in the hierarchy of inequality

focuses on the social organizations of society, or subsystems as explanations of poverty

emerges when people cannot tolerate direction of society or decision

collective attempts to change all or part of social order by means of rioting, petitioning etc.

socially constructed by proponents, socially demolished by opponents

social movements became larger and generally less violent and extended focus local to national.

suggests social movements emerge when traditional norms of social organization are disrupted

the belief that technology is the main force shaping human history

Argued that the emergence of a classless society was highly unlikely: ppl can lower inequality

system based on achievement

seek organization in a society and can be peaceful or violent

unorganized or no clear leadership or direction

incorporation of bureaucratic organization, attract donations and growth

Organization of society into layers reflecting hierarchal structure of class/status

believed capitalist growth would produce a society without classes and class conflict

Social mobility that occurs within a single generation

government reactions to protests influence subsequent protests:

work within an existing structure to improve society

most poor people are immigrants. T or F?

three factors suggest market forces cannot solve environmental problems on their own

more likely to rise or fall to a position that reflects your capabilities

poor people are trapped in poverty. T or F?