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1[blank_start]capitalism[blank_end]: is a mode of production based on unequal private ownership of the means of production
[blank_start]Marx[blank_end]- Acapitalism
- BMarx
2[blank_start]bourgeoisie[blank_end]: capitalist ownership class, owns and monopolize the means of production
[blank_start]Marx[blank_end]- Abourgeoisie
- BMarx
3[blank_start]proletariat[blank_end]: wage workers, work to meet production demands
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aproletariat
- Bmarx
4[blank_start]historical materialism:[blank_end] focuses on the material (economic) conditions in society and how these determine social structures and social relations
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Ahistorical materialism:
- Bmarx
5expansion of capitalism with its endless pursuit of profit would lead to its downfall because capitalism produces [blank_start]economic crises[blank_end]
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aeconomic crises
- Bmarx
6leading to [blank_start]class consciousness[blank_end]: wage workers recognize their exploitation, leading to revolt
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aclass consciousness
- Bmarx
7[blank_start]dialectical materialism[blank_end]: the idea that historical change (i.e., material/economic change) is the result of conscious human activity emerging from and acting on the socially experienced inequalities and contradictions in historically conditioned (i.e., human-made) economic forces and relations.
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Adialectical materialism
- Bmarx
8[blank_start]communism[blank_end]: society that would emerge following capitalism
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Acommunism
- Bmarx
9[blank_start]Human nature[blank_end]: work is very integral to what it means to be human
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- AHuman nature
- Bmarx
10[blank_start]practical activity[blank_end]: what matters is what people do in everyday life and how they do it
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Apractical activity
- Bmarx
11[blank_start]private property[blank_end]: owning [blank_start]property[blank_end] is what differentiates the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aprivate property
- Bproperty
- Cmarx
12[blank_start]use-value[blank_end]: what capitalists only care about, determines social relations
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Ause-value
- Bmarx
13[blank_start]commodification of labor power[blank_end]: what workers sell to capitalists for money/salary
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Acommodification of labor power
- Bmarx
14wage-labor is [blank_start]indirect forced labor[blank_end]
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aindirect forced labor
- Bmarx
15[blank_start]false consciousness[blank_end] in capitalism: we willingly and freely sell ourselves because we believe that we are profiting through our particular actions, false because in the end, the capitalist will always profit more than even the most highly paid athlete
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Afalse consciousness
- Bmarx
16[blank_start]surplus value[blank_end]: where capitalists profit, extracted from workers
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Asurplus value
- Bmarx
17[blank_start]division of labor[blank_end]: separates sectors and workers into discrete spheres of ever-more specialized actvity
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Adivision of labor
- Bmarx
18commodification of labor power produces [blank_start]alienated labor[blank_end]
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aalienated labor
- Bmarx
19alienation of workers [blank_start]from products they produce[blank_end]
alienation of workers [blank_start]in the production process[blank_end]
- wage workers don’t determine what they produce and how they produce it
alienation of workers [blank_start]from their species being[blank_end]
- wage-labor coerces us to use work as a means to our physical existence rather than realizing our humanity
a worker only feels himself outside his work
alienation of individuals [blank_start]from one another[blank_end]
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Afrom products they produce
- Bin the production process
- Cfrom their species being
- Dfrom one another
- Emarx
20[blank_start]consumption[blank_end] pervades our existence, people endure the burdens of work so that they can buy the things they want
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Aconsumption
- Bmarx
21[blank_start]fetishism of commodities[blank_end] , being so fixated with the commodity as an object, that we don’t recognize that it really is just is raw materials transformed by human labor
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Afetishism of commodities
- Bmarx
22[blank_start]superstructure[blank_end] are non-economic institutions that bolsters the foundational and structural inequality of capitalists and wage workers
[blank_start]marx[blank_end]- Asuperstructure
- Bmarx
23the [blank_start]ruling class[blank_end]: the capitalists
have [blank_start]ruling ideas[blank_end] which control over the means of mental prodiction
marx- Aruling class
- Bruling ideas
24the domain of sociology is [blank_start]subjectively meaningful action[blank_end]
weber- Asubjectively meaningful action
25[blank_start]Verstehen[blank_end]: understanding from the actor's point of view
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- AVerstehen
- Bweber
26[blank_start]asceticism[blank_end]: disciplined imposition of a frugality and sobriety regarding the wealth accumulated through hard work
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Aasceticism
- Bweber
27[blank_start]Calvinism[blank_end]: doctrine of [blank_start]predestination[blank_end] —> the belief that the individual’s salvation was already predetermined
weber- ACalvinism
- Bpredestination
28[blank_start]ideal types[blank_end] to describe and highlight the unique characteristics of a particular, social phenomenon, and to compare its representation with the representations of other religions
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Aideal types
- Bweber
29[blank_start]rational action[blank_end], motivating individuals, groups, and organizations to act in highly deliberate and methodical way in the actualizations of those values
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Arational action
- Bweber
30[blank_start]value-rational action[blank_end]: when an individual, group, or organization values some ideal that they decide to rationally act on that value, regardless of the unexpected or unexpected costs of that action to them
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Avalue-rational action
- Bweber
31[blank_start]instrumental rational action[blank_end]: is strategic, cost-benefit action; we are interested in achieving a particular, rationally calculated goal or end and we assess the most effective means to achieve that end among the options available
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Ainstrumental rational action
- Bweber
32[blank_start]non-rational action[blank_end]: emotion is the root
[blank_start]emotional action[blank_end]: determined by the actor’s specific feelings
[blank_start]tradition[blank_end]: [blank_start]tradition[blank_end] affects social action
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Anon-rational action
- Bemotional action
- Ctradition
- Dtradition
- Eweber
33[blank_start]power[blank_end]: the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Apower
- Bweber
34[blank_start]dominion[blank_end]/[blank_start]authority[blank_end]: the probability that certain specific commands will be obeyed
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Adominion
- Bauthority
- Cweber
35authority in modern society is [blank_start]legal[blank_end] authority: imposed by ruling organizations
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Alegal
- Bweber
36[blank_start]bureaucracy[blank_end]: legitimate structures of domination in modern society
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Abureaucracy
- Bweber
37authority in feudal society is [blank_start]traditional[blank_end] authority: loyalty to master/elder/traditions (including monarchies)
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Atraditional
- Bweber
38[blank_start]nation-state[blank_end]: legal-political territory and structure, incorporates both legal and traditional authprity
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Anation-state
- Bweber
39[blank_start]charismatic[blank_end] authority: non-rational authority that derives from [blank_start]charisma[blank_end], the special charm that gives an individual power over others
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Acharismatic
- Bcharisma
- Cweber
40[blank_start]routinization of charisma[blank_end] - translation of mortal individual charisma into longer-lasting entities
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Aroutinization of charisma
- Bweber
41[blank_start]stratification[blank_end]: inequality, the structures and processes in society which determine individuals’ objective location in a hierarchical system of social classes or strata
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Astratification
- Bweber
42[blank_start]social status[blank_end]: an effective claim to social esteem in terms of positive or negative priveleges
[blank_start]weber[blank_end]- Asocial status
- Bweber
43theory often referred to as [blank_start]functionalism[blank_end]/[blank_start]structural functionalism[blank_end]
durkheim- Afunctionalism
- Bstructural functionalism
44[blank_start]Social structures[blank_end] necessitate a [blank_start]mode of acting[blank_end] or a particular way of being and organizing social life, whose effects, maintain society
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- ASocial structures
- Bmode of acting
- Cdurkheim
45[blank_start]Social facts[blank_end]: external and collective ways in which society shapes/constrains behavior
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- ASocial facts
- Bdurkheim
46society has its own reality called [blank_start]sui generis reality[blank_end], a collective reality that exerts its own force independent of individuals
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Asui generis reality
- Bdurkheim
47[blank_start]Sociological objectivity[blank_end]: social facts exist in society and can be studied
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- ASociological objectivity
- Bdurkheim
48[blank_start]Data-centered sociology[blank_end]: analysis of social phenomena is based on statistics
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- AData-centered sociology
- Bdurkheim
49social problems are [blank_start]normal[blank_end]
durkheim- Anormal
50[blank_start]morality[blank_end] are the social ties/bonds attaching individuals to something other than themselves
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Amorality
- Bdurkheim
51[blank_start]social solidarity[blank_end] social cohesion resulting from shared social ties/bonds/interdependence.
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Asocial solidarity
- Bdurkheim
52change will only occur with [blank_start]struggle[blank_end]/[blank_start]resistance[blank_end]
durkheim- Astruggle
- Bresistance
53[blank_start]traditional[blank_end] society: characterized by the similarities that exist among people
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Atraditional
- Bdurkheim
54[blank_start]collective conscience[blank_end]: a community’s collectively shared feelings, values, etc
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Acollective conscience
- Bdurkheim
55[blank_start]Mechanical Solidarity[blank_end]: tight social bonds and cohesion resulting from the overlapping social ties that characterise traditional societies/ communities
characterised by sameness
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- AMechanical Solidarity
- Bdurkheim
56[blank_start]modern[blank_end] society: do not have the structured overlapping social relationships
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Amodern
- Bdurkheim
57through [blank_start]division of labor[blank_end] that characterizes modern societies weaker collective conscience
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- Adivision of labor
- Bdurkheim
58[blank_start]Organic Solidarity[blank_end]: social ties and cohesion produced by the functional and [blank_start]social interdependence[blank_end] of individuals and groups in modern society
[blank_start]durkheim[blank_end]- AOrganic Solidarity
- Bdurkheim
- Csocial interdependence
59[blank_start]anomic[blank_end] suicide
when normal patterns in life are suddenly uprooted
ex. natural disasters- Aanomic
60[blank_start]egoistic[blank_end] suicide
individuals become to self-oriented
lack social attachments that protect against suicide
ex. single people more likely to suicide because marriage is a constraining- Aegoistic
61[blank_start]altruistic[blank_end] suicide
excessively tight relation to community
ex. japan samurai suicides- Aaltruistic
62[blank_start]beliefs[blank_end]: states of opinion, ways of thinking
durkheim- Abeliefs
63[blank_start]rites[blank_end]: fixed modes of action in practice of beliefs
durkheim- Arites
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