Globalization

Globalization - Correct answer ongoing process that involves interconnected changes in the economic, cultural, social, and political spheres of society. As a process, it involves the ever-increasing integration of these aspects between nations, regions, communities, and even seemingly isolated places What is sociology? - Correct answer - the study of societies and the social worlds individuals inhabit within them - increased flow of goods, money, ideas, people across national borders (sociology helps to understand its patterns) What is the soc imagination, who coined the term, and what kind of motorized vehicle did he like? :) - Correct answer - C wright mills - motorcylcle - capacity to think systematically about how many things we experience as personal problems (how social context influences lives) EX: - ebt from student loans, competing demands from parents are really social issues that are widely shared by others born in a similar time What is a stereotype, what is discrimination, and how are they related? How do stereotypes contribute to discrimination? - Correct answer - Stereotype: making faulty generalizations about individuals based on what we think we know about the groups they are in. - discrimination: any behavior, practice, or policy that harms, excludes, or disadvantages individuals on the basis of their group membership What do we mean when we say "social context matters?" What is "social context?" - Correct answer Social context: influence of society on an individual. -knowing the context helps us make better guesses as to why an individual behaves a certain way -social context affects lives -context chooses friends for us Sharkey research on violent neighborhoods - Correct answer -link between neighborhood violence and children's school performance -within a week of a homicide there were lower test scores