• the degree to which peope are tied to a social group
• Durkheim

• tied to a social regulation
• Durkheim

• too little integration
• is suicide resulting from a weakening of commitment to group values and goals
• ex. christmas, unibomber

• too much integration
• suicide precipitated by an over commitment to group values and norms
• ex. suicide bombers, religious cults

• too much regulation
• suicide derived fro excessive regulation
• ex. work-a-holics, "Romeo & Juliet", students, addicts, prison, bullied

• too little regulation
• an apperance of normlessness- suicide that occurs when rapid or extreme change or crisis threatens group norms
• anomie, anomaly, anomalous
• ex. the sick market crash, Katrina

• order and stablity
• interrelated and interdependent parts
• must work together as a whole to be at it's best
• if one part stops they will cease to exist
• interfierance will throw the system off
• ex. no gov. involvment in welfare
• ex. (parts of society) poverty, crime, drug addiction, divorce, mental problems
• purpose of crime: set boundaries
• NOT about equality
• cyclical

• conflict as an inevitable fact of social life
• brings about change
• oppisite of functionalist
• want equality and need change to come about it

• how individuals make sense of their social world in an in depth and fine tunned manner
• uses symbols
• ex. verbal language, clothes, mannerisms
• interact only in our culture because of our experiance in the culture
• ex. "whats up?"
• can be manipulated easily
• symbols have meaning behind it
• ex: the American flag

• is an occurance that appears to be socially, politically or ideologically occuring but is not actually taking place
• usually in the form of metaphors
• ex: statement of "War on Terror" (can not actually pronounce war on terror >too broad >can't defeat terror

• lords and surfs
• large gap

• had a Utopian view
• >no social classes, >total equality, >no countries
• saw capitalism as a fundamental divide between the proletariat and bourgenoise
• new capitalism needed to keep expanding to new markets

• a state in which human life is dominated by the forces of human invention
• The indivicuals work is seperate from their identity

• why do workers accept such unequal treatment?
• Marx said it was b/c of false consciousness- they live throught an ideology that social constructs their reality so they think that they are donig better than they actually are

• every individual is an actor in a play on stage

formal interaction from rules and learned behavior

>>raising hand in class

informal interaction

>>a class taken out of school setting and put into a party setting

no social interactions

>>the bathroom

• shock experiment
• everyone is obidient

ones belief that one's culture is correct and proper and any others  that differ are incorrects and inproper

• genocide
• narrow minded
• no universal culture

a heirachal position in society

• achieved- attempting to achieve a higher status
• higher education
• ascribed- given to us independent of what you do
• being born into royalty

an expectation of what individuals should do in accordance with their status

• role and status go hand in hand
• stability and order are made from roles and status

a number of people who happen to be in the same place at one time but do not interact

• elevator
• movie theater
• library
• public bus

non tangible, symbolism or meaning behind material

• the meaning bedind a wedding ring
• the meaning of the flag

group who's members act informaly, in a sort of bonding/ relaxing

• family
• close friends
• sports team (the more bonded the higher the chance of winning)

out in public; formal interaction

• classroom

strong norms that specify normal behaviors

• >>weddings: dress nice, don't hit on the bride
• customs
• traditions

groups that share in some parts of the dominet culture but have their own distinctive values, norms, langauge or material or non material culture

• flexiblity
• individual freedom
• >>the omish
• still boundaries and limits

the attempt at understanding in regard to cultural evaluation

• oppisite of ethnocentric

the least stratified society in which social inequality is minimal

• primative societies
• depends on the leader
• inequality still comes from gender among other components

ranked on the bases of traits which they have no control

• stay where your born
• top: religious leaders
• bottom: untouchables (work is concidered religiously unclean)
• can't move up

people are ranked on the basis of merit talent and ability

• having reasources
• lower class can have merit talent and intelligence
• we are loosing collectivity because we have the money
• middle class used to be the working class
• cheap wages for labor intensive work
• take them for granted

3% of population controling over half of wealth

• imbalance of wealth
• imbalance of power
• constructs our reality

have the power

• >> doctors, lawyers, owners, corp execs
• work hard
• connections

largest population in the U.S (new working class)

• more education than working class

• lower education
• labor intensive jobs
• lower wages
• more dangerous jobs

anything reguarded as extrordinary. inspired respect mistery and reverness

(what your supposed to do)

anything that is not sacred

(what you are not supposed to do)

rules that govern the presense of sacred in achieving an acceptable state of being regarding the sared

• masons
• millitary
• soroities/ frats
• nationalism

• "I"- part of the core that can challende the social influence
• "Me" =social influence from the society

• 1848- Karl Marx
• view of social change- arises from class conflict

• if people define situations as real, they appaer to become real in their consquences
• people can turn there socially constructed inner-realties, which are presception, ideals, beliefs, attidues, feelings, into socially oberservable outer-realtiyes- behaviors, actions and activites

• As pre-industrial socities develop, economic surpluse increase; this allows some groups to accumliate more wealth then other which perpedicuates social inequality:
  
  • surplus- increase in social inequality
  • upper class
  • upper-middle
  • middle
  • working
  • under