Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis Notes
1.
Nature vs. Nurture
2.
Theory of Gender Neutrality
3.
Gender binary
4.
Gender dysphoria
5.
Gender Socialization
6.
Gender identity
Fausto-Sterling Notes
1.
Intersex/Transsexual
2.
Gender reassignment
3.
Kinsey Scale
4.
Sex vs. Gender
5.
Life phase homosexuality
6.
Homosexual acts. Vs. homosexual identity
7.
Cultural construction of homosexuality
Freud Notes
1.
Oedipal complex
2.
Electra Complex
3.
Id/Ego/Superego
4.
Thanatos/Libido
5.
Psychosocial development
Foundations of Sociology Notes (see PowerPoint
presentation)
·
Emile Durkheim/Structural Functionalism
o
Solidarity
o
Structure
o
Function
o
Social facts
o
Suicide as social phenomenon
o
Adaptation
o
Malfunction
o
Division of labor
o
Social harmony
·
Karl Marx/Conflict Theory
o
Competing interests
o
Instability
o
Conflict
o
History as moved by conflict
o
Conflict as dynamic
·
Max Weber/Symbolic interaction
o
Everyday interactions shape history
o
Reality as constructed
o
Language
o
Symbols
o
Meaning
o
Small Scale interaction
o
Annette Lareau Notes
·
Upward mobility
·
Class
·
Class Socialization
·
Class advantages
·
Cultural Capital: to non-financial social assets
that promote social mobility beyond economic means. Examples can include
education, intellect, style of speech, dress, and even physical appearance, et
cetera.
·
Concerted Cultivation
·
Sense of entitlement vs. Sense of Constraint
·
Accomplishment of Natural Growth
·
Differences in the organization of daily life
Carol Stack Notes
·
Class:
Social stratification that is based on both birth and individual achievement.
·
Social
Stratification: Divisions within society that privilege some at the expense of
others. This is a trait of society, not individual differences; it is
generational.
·
Structural
Inequalities: The bias that is built into the structure of organizations,
institutions, governments or, social networks. Structural inequality
occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social
networks contain an embedded bias which provides advantages for some members
and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members.
·
Meritocracy:
Progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or
wealth.
·
Exchange/Swapping
·
The
Moynihan Report
·
Culture
of Poverty
·
Upward
Mobility: Ability to rise in social and economic class.
·
Cohesion
Inside Job Notes
·
Deregulation
of markets
·
Concentration
of financial power/conglomerates
·
Distribution
of wealth
·
The
1%
·
The
Bail Out
·
Mortgage
crisis
·
Economy
as a social process
Society
Individuals
Institutions
Social Processes
Social Structure
The Sociological Imagination
Intersection of biography and history
Personal troubles vs. public issues
Universals
Particulars
Theory
Qualitative Research
Participant Observation
Quantitative Research
Surveys
Social Problems
Controversial issues that relate to people’s lives and
interactions.
Subjective
Objective
Pro-social
Anti-social
Norms: expected patterns of
behavior
Collective behavior-Actions
individuals take when norms are unclear
Emergent behavior-patterns that
arise spontaneously, often in response to conflicts or problems. This behavior
is not always legal
Media Bias
Participant Observation
Ethnography
Qualitative Research
Culture
Subjective/objective
Symbols
Meanings
“Man is an animal suspended in
webs of significance that he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,
and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of
law but an interpretative one in search of meaning.”
Culture is public because meaning
is.
Thick description
Codes
Socialization
Gender socialization
Social construction of reality: persons
and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental
representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually
become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to
each other.
Culture as text
Culture
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Diversity
Culture as way of life
Culture as human trait
Eurocentrism
Afrocentrism
Culture Shock
Elements of culture:
Symbols
Language
Values
Beliefs
Culture is shaped by technology
Hunter/gatherer
Pastoralism
Horticulture
Agricultural
Industrial
Post industrial
Cultural Changes
Invention
Discovery
Diffusion
Subculture
Counterculture
Multicultural
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