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| What are the "natural sciences"? |
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| Biology, geology, chemistry, and physics |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution affect people socially? |
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| The Industrial Revoltion made people moved to cities in serarch of work. The city made people work extremely hard for little pay and made children work as well. |
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| Who is August Comte? What was his social theory called? |
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| The "Father of Sociology" "positivism" |
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| What was Karl Marx social theory called? What was the two main classes called? |
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| "class conflict" Proletariat and Bourgeoisie |
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| What is the meaning of "Verstehen"? Who made up this theory? |
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| "To have insight into one's situation"... to mean you have been in that person's situation yourself. Max Weber. |
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| Who founded the NAACP? What does it stand for? |
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| WEB Du Bois and Jane Addams. National association for the advancement of colored people. |
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| What is "the veil"? Who taught up of the ideal? |
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| a notion to how race colors all human relations. WEB Du Bois. |
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| What is the central idea of "functional analysis"? |
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| That society is a whole unit, and it is made up of interrelated parts that work together. |
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| What are the 3 major theories of sociology? |
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symbolic interactionism
functional analysis
conflict theory |
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| What is "Social Stratification"? |
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| A system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige. |
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| Is gender used to stratisfy people? |
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| What is the 3 causes of slavery? |
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| Marriage within ones own caste or class in society, and prohibiting the marriage between different classes of people. You cannot touch a member of a inferior class or caste, or you will be made unclean. |
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| What is the "US Caste system"? |
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| where race determined what class you would be.. in US |
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| What is the meaning of "bourgeoisie" and "proletariat"? |
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| The bourgeoisie is the captialists or ones who own their production. Proletariat are those that are workers, who work for the owners. |
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| What is the meaning of "fake class consciousness"? |
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| When workers mistaken their place as workers for capitalists. |
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| What are Max Weber's 3 P's? |
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| Power, Property, Prestige |
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| What is Karl Marx main argument? |
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| That a small group of people controls a small group of resources and uses it to oppress those beneath them and the oppressed group to overcome that domination. |
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| What is the "divine right of kings"? |
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| That a king's authority comes directly from God. |
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| How does the Power elite maintain their power? |
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Controlling information
Stifling criticism
Big Brother tech |
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| How does the British power system distinguish class? Also what about the schools average people go compared to the richest 5%? |
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| Your accent is the number one sign of your social class in Britain. 5% of Britain's people own 50% of the wealth, and they send their kids to exclusive private schools, which they call "public schools" |
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| What are the most industrialized nations? |
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| USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan, and Australia. |
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| What is the "World System Theory"? |
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| the theory of how economic and political connections developed and now tie together. |
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| Who are the "core nations" in the "world system theory"? the "semiperphery"? The "periphery"? The "External Area"? |
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| Britain, France, Holland, and Germany. They were the first countries to industrialize. Nations around the Mediterranean. The Eastern European countries. Africa |
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| What is the "globalization of capitalism"? |
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| The entire world adopting capitalism, it's the world dominant economic system. |
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| How is the wealth highly concentrated in USA? |
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| that just 10% of the nation owns 70% of the nation's wealth. Also, the richest 20% of U.S. families have grown richer, while the poorest 20 percent have grown poorer. |
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| What is the difference between Status consistency and inconsistency? |
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| that ranking high on all dimensions such as a good job.. good car... good house. Where as inconsistency is when a janitor makes more money than the tenants that live in the apartments that he is cleaning. |
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| How is the capitalist class very powerful? how much does 1% of the elite money over the bottom? |
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| the elite has more wealth than the entire bottom 90% of the country. |
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| Which class is shaped most by education? |
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| How much is upper middle class in US? |
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| What are the three ways social class affect getting medical care? |
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Social class opens and closes doors to medical care.
Lifestyle.
Life hard on the poor. |
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| How does child rearing differ from lower to middle class? |
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| lower class parents focus on obeying authority, where as middle class people focus on developing leadership and creative skill. Lower class uses physical punishment, whereas middle class parents use verbal persuasion. |
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| How does social class affect religion? |
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| demoninations are usually divided by social class. Baptists are usually lower class where Episcopalians are middle and upper class. |
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| How does social class affect politics? |
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| The higher the social ladder a person is, the more likely he is going to vote republican and if lower class, he is more likely to vote democrat. |
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| How does social class affect crime? |
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| lower class are more likely to be in prison, on probation, or on parole. |
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| What is intergenerational mobility? |
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| when one generation changes the social class from a previous generation. |
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| What are the stats on the change of having babies out of wedlock? |
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| In 1960, it was 1 out of 20 US women. Now it is 2 out of 5 or 40% |
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| What are examples of poverty triggers? |
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Divorce
loss of a job
birth of a child |
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| What is the max number of years you can get welfare? |
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| 5 years and in some states less |
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