SOCI 2- UC San Diego Winter 23

power

most effective when the population is making the choice to uphold it

hegemony

getting people to consent to their own power

collective effervescence

feeling a part of something larger than yourself

division of labor

the separation of work into a series of tasks assigned to different people. fosters a sense of community among those who share those jobs. (underdeveloped vs overdeveloped)

collective consciousness

a shared understanding of social norms (strong & well defined vs weak & diffuse)

solidarity

how people are brought together (mechanical vs organic)

social coercion or integration

how people come together through division of labor, collective consciousness, and solidarity

repressive laws

have a function to punish and protect collective consciousness, mechanical solidarity

restitutive laws

meant to restore & protect interdependence, organic solidarity

social structure

the way society is organized

class

everything collectively in our heads and hearts

social class

your economic position in terms of wealth

social status

your cultural place in society

absolute poverty

based on a set spectrum of poverty (ex: “poverty line”)

relative poverty

experience in poverty & how impoverished someone is relative to others around them

vertical mobility

moving up or down the hierarchy of poverty

horizontal mobility

moving side to side from job to job

intergenerational mobility

moving from job to job in the same level

intragenerational mobility

stay at the same job

capital

anything that generates value

concerted cultivation

middle-class parents cultivate talents through things like extracurriculars that they have more access to

accomplishment of natural growth

lower-class parents foster growth more naturally

network extrenalities

outside transactions with influences

social learning

peers provide influence

normative influence

social side behaviors

race

biological traits

ethnicity

common ancestries or culture

minority

some kind of subordination in society

numerical minority

fewer of people in a majority group

subordination minority

don’t feel a part of mainstream culture