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Sociology Lecture 3 Notes
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- 1What are Civil Rights?Freedom of Speech, Person and Property
- 2What are Political Rights?Equal participation in the political system, above all universal and equal suffrage
- 3What are Social Rights?Access to the labour market, distribution of societal wealth, welfare state entitlements, decent housing
- 4Give examples of relationships between Social/Political/Civil rights and exploitation.Civil - Feudal System; Nobles vs. Commoners
Political - Patriarchy; Men vs. Women, White vs. Black, Christians vs. Jews
Social - Check Lecture, 6 mins in - 5Give the 6 points to remember about the 'New Deal' era.- The 1929 ‘Crash’
- The ‘Great’ Depression 1930’s
- WW2 1939-1945
- The ‘Post War Settlement’ & ‘The New Deal’
- Economic Growth; Redistribution; Reduced Inequality, Greater Job and Income Security, Housing Interventions – Embedded Liberalism
- “You’ve never had it so good’ – Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, 1951 - 6Has the gap between the richest and poorest in society grown or shrunk?Grown. Significantly. The top 26 richest people own as much as the bottom 50% of the globe.
- 7What has happened to Working Class Communities?They have collapsed, as where once everyone did the same thing in the same place, people now pursue all kinds of goals and travel everywhere else.
- 8What kind of culture are we transitioning into?Consumer Culture - Where we relate to people based on what we buy.
- 9Is the Class Society diminishing?No, simply the visibility of the class system is diminishing.
- 10What is Spatial Polarization?The rich nearing live the rich, and the poor nearing live the poor. This is emphasised by Ghettoization and Gentrification.
- 11What is Social Mobility? What is it in relation to Open and Closed Societies?Social Mobility is the extent to which people can rise and fall within a society.
Open Society - High Mobility
Closed Society - Low Mobility - 12What are the 4 factors that cause inequality to continue?1. Legitimisation, making excuses for it
2. Influence, those with power make sure to keep it
3. Institutionalisation, making it the norm
4. Socialisation - 13—
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- Sociology Flashcards on Sociology Lecture 3 Notes, created by Aaron Thain on 28/01/2019.
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