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Daryl Bambic

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  • the popular mood was suffused with a strange sense of unease. It was a condition in which people were told by their papers, their screens, their politicians and ideologues that they lived in a state of freedom.
  • An American could be whoever they wanted to be and follow their own inclinations and desires. But the scope of this freedom was very much limited to every American’s private life
  • that all wasn’t safe and well
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  • What the sociological imagination does is provide a way of thinking through and understanding social life, of how the inner lives of each of us as individuals are conditioned by social forces,
  • the imagination is also a ‘terrible’ realisation as it shows that our fate is largely something that is done to us, regardless of our choices.
  • rivate sphere
  • hat are its components?
  • How is society structured
  • What social groups hold sway
  • ow are they interrelated and mutually conditioning? How do they contribute to social persistence and social change? How does one society differ from another?
  • personal troubles
  • public issue
  • higher social scale
  • Mills’ thesis that unease and anxiety underlined the American (modern) condition
  • nsecurity, fatalism, fear for the future is a mass experience
  • social phenomenon
  • He argues that every age has a common intellectual denominato
  • zeitgeist
  • Consciously and unconsciously, social policy, sociology, emerging nationalisms, encouraged the view that relations between human beings were essentially an extension of the evolutionary struggle each and every species wages in the natural worl
  • Economists are forced to acknowledge the social dimension outside of their equations to explain the crash of 2008
  • sociological imagination is the habit of mind par excellence sociology as a discipline is stuck on the doldrums
igalperets

Pablo's ex spills beans on Colombia's corrupt - 0 views

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    "that Escobar had ties with prominent Colombians, including two former presidents."
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Pablo Escobar: A Hero or a Villain? - 0 views

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    "He operated under a policy called "plato o plomo" which literally signified take the money or take the bullet.  He bribed judes, policemen, juries, and innumberable government officials with money to help him out, and he took the lives of the ones that refused to cooperate with or go against him."
kimselinsky

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    C: it was reviewed and updated august 28 2015 R: It does answers my questions on teen suicide A: It gives sources and its government website A:nothing is wrong P:To inform on the subject
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    C: Its been updated with 2014 stats R: its help with learning about how much people go through A it gives sources A its all right Pto inform
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    C: 2013-2014 R Yes AHas sources A valuable info P to infrom
arturirgaliyev

The Positive and Negative Impacts Technology Has on Our Daily Lives | University of Wis... - 0 views

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    Currency: Up to date site with good graphic design and regularly updated (2015) Relevance: Clear and Logic Information  by a good source  A: Info by Brittany Walker (graduate with psychology degree)  A: clearly well made and constructed but easy to understand  P: There is a bias but it is reasonable, other than that all the information is valid and true 
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How Technology Affects Global & Local Cultures - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com - 0 views

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    C: Info recent and site clean and well programmed  R: Site ties in two of my main themes (Culture and Technology)  A: Jason Nowaczyk is a social stidues teacher in the states A: Once again, clean site, no visible mistakes or errors and all information seems trustworthy and up to date  P: The site isnt free (but I have a free trial) but it is very reliable and known 
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Does culture affect our personality? - Individual Traits and Culture - 0 views

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    C: Information written in 2012  R:  Goes in depth about how culture changes the way we think  A: Written by the People at Explorable.com A:There are no apparent false informations  P: It is a few paragraphs of a book published by explorable.com
nickenepekides

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    C: Published on February 9 2014 R: It is very relevant to my topic however it is fairly simple and doesn't go into great depth. A: Christopher Zoukis has written a book and has won awards as a writer. A: The spelling is accurate and correct, I don't see anything I know to be false and it reinforces some things I already know are true. P: The article is meant to educate people on prison life, some of the things said are more of an opinion while others are facts.
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    C: Posted November 21 2012 R:It answers some questions I had but is not very detailed A: No author is shown, only CBC news which is a major news company however can be biased but is trusted. A:The grammar is perfect and it all seems to be true. P: The purpose is to inform
pouyannshokouhi

Learning - School Drop-outs / Indicators of Well-being in Canada - 1 views

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    c: It was last updated today r: It answers my questions a: It's the government of Canada that made it. a: There is no mistakes in the writing. p: The government wrote this to show people the drop out rate.
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    c: it was last modified in 2011-07-05 r: It has some statistiques that i can use to answer my questions a: The government of Canada wrote it a: The grammar is perfect. p: The government wrote this to inform people about drop outs.
raquel7

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Daryl Bambic

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  • Conflict Theory claims that society is in a state of perpetual conflict and competition for limited resources.
  • those who have perpetually try to increase their wealth at the expense and suffering of those who have not.
  • power struggle
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  • wealthy elite
  • common person of common means
  • Power is the ability to get what one wants even in the presence of opposition. Authority is the institutionalized legitimate power.
  • society is in a state of balance and kept that way through the function of society's component parts.
  • biological and ecological concepts
  • Dysfunctions
  • threaten social stability
  • Manifest Functions are the apparent
  • Latent Functions are the less apparent, unintended, and often unrecognized functions in social institutions and processes.
  • unctionalism is more positive and optimistic
  • Equilibrium is the state of balance maintained by social processes that help society adjust and compensate for forces that might tilt it onto a path of destruction.
Catherine Preston

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  • Layers occur almost everywhere in nature: in tissues of the human body, rock formations in the ground, atmospheres around the earth, and in societies of every nation on the earth. We call these layers strata and the process of layering stratification.
  • Social Stratification is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to property, power, and prestige. Property is all the wealth, investments, deeded and titled properties, and other tangible sources of income. Power is the ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals. Prestige is the degree of social honor attached with your position in society.
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      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      What makes the layers are the gaps between the haves and the have-nots as well as the gaps of the different economic classes.
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  • here are layers of social stratification in every society
  • here are the "haves" who coexist with the masses or "Have nots."
  • he PRB uses a measure of relative economic well being called the GNI PPP. The GNI PPP is the gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity.
  • lets you understand how much a person could buy in the US with a given amount of money, regardless of the country's currency.
  • That means the stratification difference between the world's top five countries is over 149 times higher than the bottom 5 countries.
  • The US ranks high $45, 840 per capita (per person) but is the 6th wealthiest behind Luxembourg, Norway, Kuwait, Brunei, and Singapore.
  • More Developed Nations are nations with comparably higher wealth than most countries of the world including: Western Europe; Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia-these are also called Now Rich Countries.
  • lso called Now Poor Countries.
  • Africa is the poorest region with the average person making less than 1/10th of what the average US person makes.
  • Again Luxembourg at $64,400 has a score over 20 times higher than Africa's; 11 times higher than Asia (Excl. China); and 7 times higher than Latin America.
  • The higher the GNI PPP the better off the average person in that country
  • Females made much less income than males in all categories.
  • The Hispanic category is lowest for males and females.
  • Asians had the highest personal income for both sexes (Data for Asians was not reported prior to 2004).
  • The first thing you see is that dual-earner marrieds (both husband and wife work in labor force) by far have the highest income levels between 1990 and 2006.
  • husband only in labor force) comes in next followed closely by single males
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      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      This is a great example of how the value of a woman as capital does not lie in income because it is inferior to male's 
  • In sum, the females with the highest income are married.
  • Single females reported the lowest income
  • Basically, the higher the education, the higher the annual income in 2007.
  • higher for Whites and Asians
  • Blacks and Hispanics
  • Official data begin to tell you the story about how the layers look in a society.
  • Over 40 percent of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans dropped out.
  • In the US, non-Whites, non-Asians, and non-males are more likely to be found in the lower layers.
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