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Oppression
________: attitudes, behaviours, and pervasive and systematic social arrangements by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges.
Ideology
________: ideas or ideals that sustain a regime.
social relationship
Power: the probability, within a(n) ________, of realizing ones own even against resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests.
Religion
________= helps maintain the structure of capitalist society.
Capitalism
________ limits the freedom and exercise of power by the state.
European
_____ sociology: societies = totalities, attempted to understand relationships as a whole.
Marx
________: proletariat (working class) would emerge victorious from a revolutionary confrontation with the capitalists.
American
_____ sociology: attempted to understand particular institutions.
Politics
________: a continuous conflict over the control of scarce material and symbolic.
Status groups
________: people who share a common occupational /professional position + values /lifestyle.
Superstructure
________: politics, state, religion, philosophy.
Rational bureaucracy
____ ____: alienation, no freedom.
Economics
_____: central feature to the patterns of inequality.
Gemeinschaft relations
________: individuals interact in a face-to-face manner.
Gesellschaft relations
________: interactions take place in an impersonal fashion, involving only 1 aspect of ones self.
Rape culture
________: rape and violence against women are accepted as a common feature of society.
Class consciousness
____ ____: the working class becomes aware of itself as a class.
Marx
________: all political /social phenomena are caused by the economic substructure of society.
Substructure
________= economy; it shapes all institutions.
Political sociology
Interrelationships of political + social phenomenon
Marx
All political/social phenomena are caused by the economic substructure of society
2 problems
integration of societies + protection of individual liberties
Political economy
the economy is not a neutral institution
Socialism
social cooperation between workers to create wealth, means of production are controlled by the state
Communism
means of production are collectively owned by the workers themselves
Determinism
inevitability of historical change
Verelendung
Worsening financial conditions of the average worker → _______: increasing misery
Class consciousness
the working class becomes aware of itself as a class
Strength of the state
law and administration + great leadership figures
Politics
a continuous conflict over the control of scarce material and symbolic
Status groups
people who share a common occupational/professional position + values/lifestyle
Weber
class, status groups, parties
Custom
status, status group, ideological/normative power
Exchange
wealth, classes, economic power
Command
rulership, party, political power
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