SOCIOL 100 Weeks 6-11 Vocabulary

Flashcards covering key vocabulary from SOCIOL 100 Weeks 6-11 lectures, including Remembering, Religion, Deviance, Migration, Urbanization, Globalization, Social Movements, The Anthropocene, Research, Consumption, and Working.

Remembering

The process of bringing something or someone from the past to one’s mind, an active process of reconstruction, not a perfect record.

Collective Memory

Concept that there exists a shared pool of memories and social structures that shape individual recollection.

Autobiographical Narratives

Stories we tell ourselves about who we are; influenced by family & others.

Affective-discursivity

The concept where feelings, emotions, and affect are grounded in social practice and meaning-making, often related to feelings of entitlement and belonging.

Racialised Common Sense

The dismissal of race as a legitimate topic of concern in contemporary life.

Religion

Beliefs, actions, and institutions predicated on the existence of entities with powers of agency or impersonal powers or processes possessed of moral purpose which can set the conditions of, or intervene in human affairs.

Spirituality

Less structurally defined than religion; emphasizes subjective, individual experience.

Fundamentalism

A religious movement characterized by a return to fundamental principles, rigid adherence, and strong opposition to secularism.

New Religious Movements

Religious, ethical or spiritual groupings that have not yet been recognized as a mainstream denomination or church.

Deviancy

Social transgressions, normal parts of society, can entrench power imbalances or stimulate social change.

Conformity

When individuals accept society’s culturally sanctioned goals and follow legitimate means to achieve those goals.

Transgression

Breaking away from conformity; produces labeling as ‘other’.

Othering

Processes by which dominant groups in society deem subordinate groups fundamentally different and undeserving of equal rights.

Criminalization

Codifying transgressions to render them punishable.

Moral Panic

When society reacts disproportionately to a social phenomenon.

Neo Liberalism

Equates human wellbeing with the promotion of economic freedom from regulation and the limitation of state intervention in social and economic life.

Wage-Labour Bargain

The informal agreement about how much effort a worker will put in relative to the wages they receive.

Productivity

Maximizing worker output.

Efficiency

Minimizing worker wastage.

Compliance

Ensuring worker adherence.

Subordination

Ensuring worker passivity.

Flexibility

Ensuring workers accommodate organizational change

Subterfuge

Individual & Private, Strict adherence but lost meaning.

Insubordination

Individual & Public, A form of discourse, Transformational aim.

Soldiering

Collective & Private, Collectively sanctioned ‘theft’.

Insurrection

Collective & Public, Wane in efficacy as power relations shift.

Habitus

The internalization of social structure with ingrained habits, styles, and ways of thinking.

Cultural capital

The non-economic resources that individuals use to gain social advantage.

Liquid Perspective

A post-modern phenomenon in which people, things and ideas are no longer fixed in place but instead flow across traditional borders and boundaries.

Globalization

All those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society, a global society.

Time-Space Compression

Space between people is flattened

Hybridity

The coming together of different constituent parts to create something new, which is more than the sum of its parts

Eurocentrism

The tendency to centre Europe, and societies that consider themselves to have European heritage, such as the US, in the development of theories which are then applied globally.

An ideology which puts the imagined community of ‘the nation’ (which is usually territorially bound) at its centre.

Nationalism

Populism

A political approach that strives to appeal to ‘ordinary people’, promoting the idea that their concerns are disregarded by traditional elites.

Social Movements

Group efforts to change the social order.

Resource mobilization

Gather resources and capacities.

Political Opportunity

External political environment and power structures.

Historical-Cultural

Broader societal values and past struggles.

Framing

Meaning-making and persuasion.

Collective Identity

Group belonging and shared purpose.

Counter-Hegemony

Challenging dominant ideologies.

Structural Shifts

Systemic and historical forces.

Anti-Systemic Movements

Designation for movements emerging in the nineteenth Century

Risk Society

A world in which the unintended, unwanted, unmanageable consequences of industrialization are dominant within the social system.

Industrialization

The shift within the economy from an agricultural base to a manufacturing base.

Unintended consequences

The unforeseen outcomes of purposeful action.

Hyperobjects

Human-made objects that are massively dispersed across time and space, transcending human scales.

Anthropocene

The age of humans; a reference to our planetary dominance.

Anthropogenic

Environmental change caused by humans.

Sacrifice zones

Geographic areas that have been permanently environmentally (and/or economically) damaged.

Ontology

Considerations of the ways in which anything that is, can be said or thought, to be.

Epistemology

Deals with theories of knowledge.