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25 Cards in this Set
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First Postmodern Philosopher
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Frederich Nietzsche
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Modernization
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Process of social change that has at its core technologically-induced economic growth
(internet, facebook, telephone) |
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Structural Pluralism
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"Splitting up" society into 2 spheres:
1. Public: megastructures-massive institutions, law, state, corporation, health care, education 2. Private: sphere of the intimate |
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Postmodernism exists primarily in the realm of...
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Ideation (ideas)
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Harper and Lietch
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Social Change in America
-gradual change of culture (gays & lesbians) -Social change in institutions *religion from public to private *desegregation of schools Start out with a single seismic event (Gay rights, stone wall riots) **military: don't ask, don't tell |
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Three Distinct Sociological Concepts of Modernity
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1. Rationality: decisions we have to make daily, desire for efficiency.
-Bureaucracy: rational means for social organization (organizations are defined by hierarchy) 2. Cultural Pluralism: people, objects, ideas coming into contact with eachother -facilitated by increasing tolerance 3. Structural Pluralism: the world becoming split into 2 spheres: Public & Private(church & state) |
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Crisis of Identity
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More likely to impact the upper middle class than the working class
-Middle class people question who they are and their decision making. Working class doesn't have a choice and the options to choose from |
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Values
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morals attached to lifestyles that we choose
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Ideas
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-Dependent upon structures/institutions
-how governments lose legitimacy -act back on institutions and define life *ideas & institutions are constantly working back and forth with each other |
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Dominant idea prior/in era of Deinstitutionalization
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sincerity-->authenticity
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Sincerity-->Authenticity
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Sincerity: within social roles
Authenticity: independent of social roles |
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Honor-->Dignity
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Honor: military, royal family
Dignity: inherent worth in every human regardless of where or who you are |
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Calling-->Career
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Calling: called to do something
Career: we are in control |
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Character-->Personality
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Character: should judge people on traits that are judge to be desirable
Personality: takes away the moral judgement |
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Virtue-->Values
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Virtue: fixed moral truths, less faith in these
Values: how you take on life, relativism, everyone has different values |
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Deinstitutionalization:
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Expansion of foreground under conditions of late modernity whereby we take less and less for granted
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Subjectivization:
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the process of turning inward to analyze, define, and make sense of one's place in the world.
If you cannot, you are thrown into Anomie. |
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Churling: 4 Processes of Deinstitutionalization
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How people act in marriage has weakened.
-Marriage has deinstitutionalized 1. Changing division of labor in home 2. Increase in non-marital childbirth 3. Co-Habitation without marriage 4. Rise and legalization of same-sex marriage |
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Cultural Changes, Marriage: Deinstitutionalization
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1. Shift of institutional model-->companionship model
-from vehicle for kids-->to about 2 people's love -Companiate Model: can be gauged by how much men like to play the care-giver role. 2. Individualized Model: happiness in marriage should come from your own fulfillment & satisfaction. -most people would like to get married in their lives. |
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Churling: Marriage Offers an Enforceable Trust
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-People want to get investments from their partners and in their relationships
-ummarried mothers still highly value marriage -marriage is a way of social bragging -it is a way of telling people that someone cares about you. |
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Tom Wolf "Hook-Up" Culture:
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-Illustration of the constant change of our identities
-you can "un-hook" easily, when you change your mind -you can see a double standard **girls cant hook up with a lot of people-->they are sluts **men are players when they hook up with a lot of people **hook up culture disadvantages women **incentives for men, hook up with people instead of dating |
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Courtly Love
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A relationship marked by ceaseless yearning but no sexual activity
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Marriages in the pre-modern era were usually defined by:
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-Consideration of economic factors
-Endogamy: relations tended to be a lot like us because there wasn't much cultural pluralism in pre-modern times |
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Rationality
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Cultures tend to be homogeneous
-The ways of life, the ways of belief, every aspect of life tends to be done in the same way with very little variation |
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Cultural Pluralism
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The variety of the worlds cultures come together
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