KRLS 104 Study Guide

Anomie

Anomie

________: Idea of when individuals get isolated from society and how they feel and act throughout it all.

Karl Marx

________: One of the most influential and notorious writers ever.

Hierarchy of network

Field: ________ and structured space where individuals with different resources, skills and capital compete for positions and power.

Agency

________: The act in which people make their own decisions and are responsible for their actions, the ability of individuals to act independently in a goal- directed manner to shape society.

Structural Functionalism

________: This topic focuses on the evolution of society and the importance of social integration during the evolution, which includes social conditions when bonds between individuals and collective structures and values break down.

Habitus

________: Embodied dispositions /tacit knowledge providing a practical sense of how to interpret one's actions.

Ideology

________: Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements.

Pierre Bourdieu

________: He attempted to integrate human agency and social structure to understand social action, power and social change.

part of Symbolic Interactionism

Is ________ as it plays a part in how people act.

Power

________: The ability of a specific group to influence others and exercise control onto them while pursuing their goals with the possibility of resistance.

hierarchical field

Class structure an objective, ________, within which an individuals subjective class habitus is formed and operates.

Equality of opportunity

________: participation equally available to everyone.

Symbolic Interactionism

________ (Microsociology): Theoretical perspective focussing on everyday experiences.

Capital

________: How individuals act within a field drawing upon their habitus and diff types of capital that they possess: usable resources.

Sport and Social Stratification

________: Social hierarchy and reward system where an individuals demonstrated performance determines where they are in the hierarchy.

Hegemony

Basically leadership and dominance

Agency

The act in which people make their own decisions and are responsible for their actions, the ability of individuals to act independently in a goal-directed manner to shape society

Power

The ability of a specific group to influence others and exercise control onto them while pursuing their goals with the possibility of resistance

Ideology

Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements

Social Theory

Set of theories about the nature of the social world and peoples roles in that world

Structural Functionalism

This topic focuses on the evolution of society and the importance of social integration during the evolution, which includes social conditions when bonds between individuals and collective structures and values break down

Anomie

Idea of when individuals get isolated from society and how they feel and act throughout it all

Symbolic Interactionism (Microsociology)

Theoretical perspective focussing on everyday experiences

Meads Social Theory

How we develop as a person overtime, the evolution of us as a human

Critical Social Theory

Set of social theories blending the best of conflict theory and symbolic interactionism

Focuses on agency

ppl arent dupes/fake

Focuses on an expanded notion of power

gender, sexuality

Sport and Social Stratification

Social hierarchy and reward system where an individuals demonstrated performance determines where they are in the hierarchy

Equality of opportunity

participation equally available to everyone

Equality of condition

athletes take part in competitive system under the same conditions

Pierre Bourdieu

He attempted to integrate human agency and social structure to understand social action, power and social change

Field

Hierarchy of network and structured space where individuals with different resources, skills and capital compete for positions and power

Habitus

Embodied dispositions/tacit knowledge providing a practical sense of how to interpret one's actions

Karl Marx

One of the most influential and notorious writers ever