the #metoo movement has reached 85 countries. This is an example of:
1)Computer medicated communication - twitter and facebook
2)Mobilization of resources - media, judiciary and political
3)Attempt to change structure and norms of society
A recent analysis of newspaper coverage of female gubernatorial candidates indicated that
Coverage focused more often on the personal life, appearance, or personality of female candidates than it did on male candidates.
Because many young, minority, or poor citizens are not engaged politically, political power brokers:
Will probably continue to ignore their interests
Which model of power relations suggests society is ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests?
elite model
The pluralist model of power relations in the united states suggests that:
power is held by many competing groups that have access to government, so no group is dominant
organized collective activities aimed at bringing about fundamental changes in existing society
social movements
conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities
relative mobilization
ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel?
resource moblization
organized collective activities that address values and social identities as well as improvements in quality of life are called:
new social movements
social change has been defined as
significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture
In Talcott Parsons' equilibrium mode, the incorporation of groups that were previously excluded because of their race, ethnicity, and social class in known as
differentiation inclusion
Karl Marx suggests that humanity will move towards its final stage of development through:
social revolution
What is true about social change
some people have vested interest in resisting social change
types of gov:
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Dictatorship
Fascism
Democracy
Totalitarianism
ect
Monarchy
headed by a single member of a royal family
Oligarchy
run by a few individuals
-Often takes form of military help
-Ex. Egypt
Dictatorship
One person has all the power
Totalitarianism
involves virtually complete government control and surveillance over all aspects of society
-Ex. North Korea
Fascism
political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individuals. It stands for centralized autocratic gov headed by dictatorial leader
Democracy
governed by the people
representative democracy
certain individual elected to speak for the people
elite model
society ruled by small group of individuals who shared
mills model
relatively small, loosely knit group of people who tend to dominate American policymaking.
power elite
includes relatively few members and operates as a self conscious, cohesive unit.
relative dprevation
being deprived of power
resource mobilization
ways a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to media and workers
false consumption
attributes that dont reflect workers objective position
sociopolitical systems
tend to focus on male dominant corridors of power
Dunin-Kruger effect
rate yourself better thank you are
invisible to those experiencing it
"when arguing with a fool make sure the other person isnt doing the same thing
black lives matter movement seeks to:
bring about social change, particularly to end institutional racism in the crime justice system
white supremacy seeks to:
to maintain institutional white supremacy and to create white ethnostate
monopoly is
the control of market by a single business firm
ex. the zipper
what are two types of economic systems seen as contemporary societies
capitalism and socialism
capitalism is
an economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive is to get profits
what created a heightened demand for resources with in the Democratic republic of Congo
market for cell phones, pagers, laptops, electronics
economic system which means production and distribution are collectively owned
socialism
communism
all property is government owned
socialists society differ from capitalists societies in that socialists focus on
provision of social service programs
max weber's term to exercise ones will over another
power
according to max weber, force is:
the actual, threatened use of coercion to impose ones will on others
persuasion is known as
influence
when leaders imprison or execute political disordinantes, they are applying:
force
power that has been institutionalized and recognized by the people that exercise it is called
authority
examples of authority
person who leads group bc his charming personality and charismatic authority
traditional authority
village chiefs, monarch, legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice
in a society with leadership based on rational legal authority, leaders derive authority from:
written rules and regulations of the political system
leaders showing charismatic authority
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Hitler
which form of government does the US utilize?
Representative Democracy
decline in political participation allows gov to
operate with less accountability
passage of the 19th amendment
women can vote - 1920
women held what % of congressional seats in 2016
19%
In 2016 what % of congresstional membership consisted of racial ethnic minorities
18%
totalitarianism is a form of:
dictartorship
which sociologist originally articulated the concept of the power elite
C. Wright Mills
offshoring refers to:
sending jobs overseas
microfinancing
sending small sums of $$ to poor so they can work
evolutionary theory
theory of social change saying society is moving in a definite direction
Auguste Comte saw societies as:
moving from mythology to science method
Emile Durkhein said societies progress from:
simple to complex
Talcott Parsons society state of
equilibrium