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Where are the lecture notes stored?

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Where are student generated content summarizing and discussing the readings and lectures stored?

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Files –> canvas

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What is the defintion of community?

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Process of learning social norms

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Sociology definition

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study of society

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Community definition

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Collection of people with shared norms

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What kind of “community” are we building in this class?

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A learning community

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What was the topic of our first class discussion, our ice-breaker?

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Banning cell phones in NY state schools

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Why is there a tension between the legal laws of this topic and the sociological norms of this topic?

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Because phones are very engrained in society, so when you take them away, you aren’t preparing kids for the real world. Also, you taking are a freedom or right in a way

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What is the title of the title of “Chapter 1” of C. Wright Mills’ book The Sociological Imagination?” What does the title mean?

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The Promise. It’s called this because if we learn the sociological imagination, we gain the quality of mind to understand the intersection between the human biography and history of society

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Forest-tree metaphor

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To understand society, you cannot look at one individual or one tree, you must look at the forest as a whole

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Sociological Imagination defintion

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The quality of mind essential to understand the intersection between human biography and the history of society

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Why do people feel confused and trapped in their lives, according to Mills?

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The lack of understanding that their personal troubles are rooted in the issues of social structures that no individual can solve alone according to Mills.

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What happened to the insurance salesman and his wife and his son?

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He goes to war and becomes a rocket launcher, he dies, wife is alone, son is left without a dad.

We can be furious with congress over war, but no individual person stops/starts a war so anger is counterproductive

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What makes a classic a classic?

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It remains relevant and useful across time

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What did Mills’ “classic social analysts” do?

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They all ask the same fundamental questions about society

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What is first question in the first set of questions?

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  1. Social Structure
  2. Historical change/impact
  3. Human character types, leading to stratification
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What happened in Lakewood in the early 1990s?

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A gang of youth student athletes that had a superiority complex, and arrested on charges of sexual violence.

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How did the community find out they had a problem in their community?

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There was pipe bomb leading to sheriffs speaking to parents about the issue

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Then what happened in the community?

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The boys were detained for four nights, the cops decided there wasn’t strong enough evidence for sexual violence charges

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Why is this important?

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People were in denial of the violence in their community, and they cared more about maintain their “perfect” society rather than the community itself

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How did members of the community describe the community?

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American dream, ideal community

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How did members of the community explain what had happened in the community?

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They blamed the school for encouraging sexual behaviors by saying they distributed condoms
They also said the media blew this issue out of proportion and sex is normal amongst teens

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What do ordinary people feel confused according to Mills in the opening paragraph of The Sociological Imagination?

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Morals have changed but we’re still abiding by them

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How did Joan Didion learn about the Trouble in Lakewood?

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The spur posse had a superiority complex that led to this behavior

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Did Didion use something like the sets of questions suggested by Mills in her explanation of what had happened in Lakewood?
Structural Didion explained the social hierarchy of the spur posse's dominance Historical impact Lakewood was essentially built by the GI bill and helped the veterans of Lakewood build their economy Stratification She describes inequality by saying how women aren't seen as valuable and the spur posse believes that they are superior
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Structure of Lakewood
They're based on a plantation model. They put highschool athletics on a pedestal
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Histroy of lakewood
Manunfacturing dominant society because of the cold war, but when the war ended the factories pulled out leaving men without jobs
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Social hierarchy in lakewood
Men are at the top because they control their family's income Young boys are at the top because their are idealized for athletics
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Ordinary life in Lakewood?
The kids were expected to follow in the footsteps by playing high school sports, and growing up to work in blue collar jobs just like their parents, they remain in the same spot after generations
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How was Lakewood changing? Why was this happening?
Manufacturing dominant society because of cold war, but when the war ended the factories pulled out leaving men without jobs
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Why does Didion tell her family life story in her analysis?
To contrast her own background as an old Californian with Lakewood, CA. The young boys in Lakewood never faced adversity, and expected an easy fun life, and then get a job based on their HS athletic success
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What is gender like in Lakewood?
Traditional roles with men working and women staying at home
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What is race like in Lakewood?
Overwhelming white area, and riots in LA were a whole other place and no where near them
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What is class like in Lakewood?
Working class families insisting their middle class
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What was the school system like in Lakewood
Non academic, idealize sports, atheletics leads to adult success, no college
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Where is the Lakewood High School Sports Hall of fame
In the Mcdonalds, and it shows how tied americans are to consumerisms and how young men peaked in HS
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How were kid's birthday parties becoming a challenge cultural event
People felt like they had to bring gifts, but as jobs became more scarce, they couldn't afford to buy gifts
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Was somebody in Lakewood getting divorced? Why?
Dottie Belman, and her son being involved in the sex scandal being the reason why
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Were the kids of Lakewood somehow betrayed? If so, betrayed by what or by whom?
The boys were betrayed because they were promised jobs post HS. The girls were betrayed because there was no justice for the sexual violence
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Were the residents of Lakewood betrayed? If so, betrayed by what or by whom?
Local gov, global politics
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What was the role of global-political affairs in what happened in Lakewood?
Cold war ending --> no jobs
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What was the role of national politics in what happened in Lakewood?
Gerrymandering - changing borderlines in a state that will influence the voting process
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Who is Hochschild? Famous for?
Famous for second shift, which is women were getting real jobs, but were still tied to their stay-at-home role causing a lot of emotional labor
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What and where did she study in the selection we read and discussed for class? Why did she choose this place to study?
Study of cancer alley, which was the nickname for part of LA that had pollution, and People living near pollution didn't support government rules that would limit pollution. and she wanted to understand political polarization of people voting against policies that benefitted them
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What is the great paradox
People living with serious economic issues voted against the programs that would be helpful with their struggles
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Briefly, what is the meaning of the title of her book?
Strangers of their own land. This means a lot of working class people felt left behind and weren't being prioritized
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What is a deep story?
explaining how life feels, and not what is statistically true.
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How does Hochschild describe the American Dream?
If you work hard, you will be better off than the generation before you.
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What are the large historical structural changes that have impacted the people she studies?
Moving into a post industrialization society where we shifted from a manufacturing to tech dominant society
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Who and what are linecutters?
Affirmative action was seen as unfair and minorities were the line cutters that didn't have to work hard
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What is the life story of Bill Beatifo? Why are people angry at the Obamas? Why are people angry at the government?
Bill grew up in blue collar work lost economic stability over time felt govt programs didn't help people like him (white) Obama = linecutter
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There was an interesting gender difference in attitudes towards government cuts for social programs. What was the difference? P. 148
Women were generally more sympathetic to people in need of govt assistance
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What are any two of the themes that Hochschild’s research subjects often get factually incorrect?
Welfare benefits was thought to be using 50% of govt funds, but it was really 8% It was believed those on welfare weren't trying to get jobs
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Using berger and Luckmann's “social construction of reality theory”, why doesn’t there need to be a match between facts and beliefs amongst social groups?
The idea that something socially constructed has meaning based on the experiences of the people in the society
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What is title of the assigned reading by Marx?
Communist Manifesto
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Who was the co-author? Brief describe his co-author
Engels --> He was marc's wealthy partner that provided financial support and collaboration for writing
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What is the classic first sentence of the reading that begins with The history of
The history of all hither to existing society is the history of class struggles
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What is the mechanism of social change according to Marx and Engels?
The mechanism of social change is class struggles
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What are a few of the other famous passages?
All that is solid melts into air: Capitalism takes over everything and breaks down religion, traditions, and social bonds. An appendage to the machine: Workers become mindless tools doing repetitive, unskilled labor under capitalism.
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What is historical materialism?
Historical materialism is how humans have acquired their basic needs throughout society through modes of production. Food, water, shelter
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Means of subsistence
Food, water, clothing
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What are the two classes in Marx's model?
Bourgeoisie (owners) Proletariat (workers)
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What area of modern law helps owners?
Private property laws -> They allow you to own means of production
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What are the rights of owners?
Control production and fire/hire anyone. Huge impact on people's life outcomes
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What are the sociological characteristics of workers?
Only own their ability to work. No land owners
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What is exploitation
Workers aren't being paid for the value they're providing
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What is alienation
Workers are disconnected from their, and they do not own it
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Difference between wealth and income
wealth = income – debt People can have the same income, but different wealth Wealth can also come from inherited money, or any other source
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How much wealth does the top 10% richest group own?
70%
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Why does inequality matter? What are the societal consequences of inequality?
Reduces the ability for oppressed individuals to climb the status ladder
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Who is Winslow Taylor? Background, activities, college, work
His dad was princeton lawyer, mom was an abolitionist. Inherited wealth and went to princeton. He participated in sports like tennis. Scientific management
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What are the well-known synonyms for his managerial techniques
Scientific management Taylorism efficiency movement
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3 steps of the system
get knowledge, have knowledge, use knowledge causes deskilling, devaluing, degrading don't need real skills, job becomes less valuable, repetitive degrading work
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3 characterisitics of white collar workers
Class - top of class of wealth status - handling people, money power - power of an owner
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What is US history of middle class
Typically farmers living off their crops and selling their inventory. A lot more people started moving to urban areas, and become workers instead owners, taking away their power
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Where did we put the white collar workers on the Venn diagram model and why? Did we put them in more than one place on the model? Why?
Anyone who doesn't own the means of production is a worker, but white collar workers are on the higher status
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What was the central research question that led Willis to do his study a British high school in the early 1970s? What is the title and subtitle of his book? What is the title of the assigned chapter we read?
How and why are people producing their own social class? Title: Learning to labor: How working class kids get working class jobs Chapter: Elements of a culture
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culture
a whole way of life
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What did Raymond Williams call the following group of words and why are they important: socialization, norms, class, class consciousness, solidarity, institution, roles, masculinity, patriarchy, gender, race, education, community, culture, family, marriage, police, clothing, sex, smoking, drinking, fighting, laughing, authority, soldiering, leisure, popular music, social network, attendance, time, British colonial history, capitalism, sociological imagination, social structure, hierarchy, agency, and more.
Keywords to help us understand the elements of culture
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Who are the ‘lads?’ What are the sociological roles and norms they are performing? What are the “elements” of their culture? Use the words listed above in your answers.
A social group of british white school boys against school-culture, projecting toxic masculinity through drinking, smoking, sex, fighting
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Who are the other people in their social system? What are the sociological roles and norms they are performing? Use the keywords above in your answers.
The earoles are the conformists that listen to teachers and trust the school
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What is the hierarchy of their social system?
Lads believe they are at the top of the social hierarchy through superiority complexes by being dominant by fighting, having sex, and breaking rules.
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What is the sociological meaning of “time” in the lives of the lads?
Time is a battle for autonomy, they use their time for laughing and being lazy
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What happens on the last day of school?
They all go to a bar and get drunk, and return to school with the principal expecting it to happen and the cops will be there. They are idealized for this.
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What happens on the field trip to the museum?
They act like a plague and destroy the property, and then go to the club to celebrate
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How do the parents respond when the school sends a letter home to the parents?
Parents reward the lads and give them a memento to remember their poor actions
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What is the structure of gender in their culture?
Male-dominance and females are views as sexual objects. Women divided into categories regarding sexual conquests. Some women are seen as objects for sex, while others are seen as wives.
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What is the structure of race in their culture?
Asians – earoles Jamaicans – are more viewed as lads, but receive a lot of racism
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Has the school actually worked even though the Lads do not do any schoolwork?
The school isn’t there to educate, they are there to make sure the students turn into blue collar workers. This is because of capitalism.
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What happens, according to lecture, when the lads and the earholes make the school to work transition?
They all end up in the same place in the end, lads expect this and earoles are disappointed.
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Does the social system of capitalism get what it needs to successfully survive? How? Why? Use our basic Marxian Venn diagram model in your answer.
Counter school culture teaches them accept manual labor and ignore academics. Teaches them reject authority, so they never become apart of authority.
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