Soc 101 Final Exam–Social Change and Social Movements – Flashcards
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industrialization
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the reason modern societies are forming
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modernity
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social patterns resulting from industrialization (decline of traditional communities, increase of choice, increase of social diversity, orientation toward the future)
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post-modernity
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post-industrial; modernity has failed, progess a myth, science untrustworthy, culture becoming divisive
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consumer society
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all industries, services, and social institutions are organized around consumer model, social class becomes central social division, material goods create self, material culture most important
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Tonnies
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social change=negative; small town living (gemeinschaft community) vs. cities (gemeinschaft society)---everyone has a purpose and place reliable on others w/o community the bond is lost
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Durkheim
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social change=positive division of labor, economic interdependence, more together than ever before, natural reliance on others(organic solidarity)
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Marx
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social change=positive modern society--capitalism but social change can end capitalism
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Weber
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social change=positive social change has led to disenchantment (dont know what to believe in) but rational thinking is better than traditional thinking
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Ritzer
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social change=negative homogenized McWorld (efficiency, calculability, predictability, control)----everythings is the same w/o uniqueness
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McDonaldization
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making the world more efficient, calculable, predictable, and controlable
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globalization
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caused by the end of the cold war, spread information (communication with technology advancements)
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collective behavior
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group actions outside norms; using a collective mind (riots, panics, moral panic, rumors, urban legends, groupthink, after disasters)
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stages of social movements
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emergence, coalescence, organization/bureaucractization, institutionalization, decline and possible resurgence
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mass society
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theory for social movement for belonging and purpose
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resource mobilization
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theory for social movement for political action, join movement to succeed
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relative deprivation
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theory for social movement because right perceived wrong (tea party taxation)
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new social movements
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theory for social movement for identity and culture
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alternative
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social movement (partial change)--seeks to alter individual change [mothers aganist drunk driving]
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redemptive
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social movement (total change)--seeks total change in an individual [religion]
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reformative
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social movement (partial change)--seeks to reform something about society [civil rights movement]
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transformative
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social movement (total change)--seeks to transform social institutions [revolution]
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transnational
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social movement (partial change)--seeks to change condition throughout world [enviromental movement]
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metaformative
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social movement (total change)--seeks to change the social order of entire world [Nazi Germany]
