sociology - lecture people

c wright mills

sociological imagination (populated sociology as field)

hetcher and opp

norms = cultural phenomena that prescribe and proscribe behavior, legal vs social norms

Harold Garfinkle

breaching experiments - deliberately breaking norms to gauge reactions

pierre bourdieu

cultural capital (person, material, institutions)

david newman

(on mills) awareness of context = essential to change 

robert merton

functionalism - manifest + latent functions/dysfucntions

ignore

people make things real - consequences become real

William Ogburn

stats + cultural lag

Robert Park

bio principals, more active field

Diane Vaughan

normalization of deviance - ethnography on how nasa normalized mistakes

William Leap 

content analysis of graffiti - how artifacts describe society 

Corinne Martin

becoming gendered body - ethnography on how preschools enforce gender roles (hidden curriculum) 

Mark Martino

exposure to degrading vs non degrading and sexual activity in teens - content analysis of music lyrics (longitudinal survey) - sexual scripts

davis and moore

functionalist approach to stratification - rewards for certain positions (ex pilot)

pierre bourdiue

cultural capital 

bethany bryson

introduces multicultural capital (jmu - regression analysis on symbolic exclusion + cultural capital)

Micheal Atkinson

interviews on plastic surgery for men 0 - neutral face

Boroka Bo

intersectional research (interviews) - time scarcity in retirement + impact of class

krugar + dale

quantitative study of ivy league vs ivy state kids + incomes (about same - updates 2011 that black/hispanic ivy was more significant)

w.e.b debois

double consciousness - american vs black

zimbardo

prison experiment - role play revealed conditions = more significant than individuals

rivera and tilesik

experiment on college students and gender bias - no sig difference

skocpol

‘‘states and social revolutions” - comparative research on social revs (result of unintended consequences)

wimmer

formal modeling (stat techniques) on nationalist orgs and war - created own dataset, studying many at same time

lareau

ethnography on upper middle vs working class child rearing - accomplishment of natural growth vs concerted cultivation

thorne

book on gender play - ethnography on peer group influence on gender socialization (highly significant - especially around bodies)

gilligan

intensive interviews on how men + women view relationships (women - concerned, men view as weakness) 

brown and lsane-brown

ethnography on race socialization

piketty

sources/concentrations of wealth in 21st century - wealth inequality as result of capitalism

desmond

poverty = due to national culture (govt benefits top)

levy

agism stereotypes - survey on negative impacts