Monday, August 29
2 films that deal with sociological issues
Just watched "The Adjustment Bureau" and "Clash of the Titans" and found that both films were interesting in that they both connect in religion, power/struggle, entrapment, love, and testing fate/faith/chance by making your own destiny regardless of higher powers that be. Free-will.
Who is connected to Whom
I mentioned this but could not remember the site name.
It is www.muckety.comGo there and look Upper R.H. corner for search bar. Put in a name of any well-known figure. You will see a graph of all their connections - then you can click on any one of those connected to center on their connections.
It is www.muckety.comGo there and look Upper R.H. corner for search bar. Put in a name of any well-known figure. You will see a graph of all their connections - then you can click on any one of those connected to center on their connections.
Saturday, August 27
Wednesday, August 24
the links that didn't link today
- how many of the last 10 Academy Award Winning movies were about women: 2
- what recent winner had a quad-word in its title & was about new ways we relate to each other: Social Network
- a person in the "control-informal" quad might lack: follow-through, fulfillment, consistency, being clear
Tuesday, August 23
The Fun Theory
I stumbled upon this clip and thought it was interesting---
---I know I would use the stairs more. But will it really change us in the long run?
Eventually won't people be used to it and stop using the stairs? Some "fun things" can become boring and have to be constantly reinvented. I feel like it's hard for us as a society to stay satisfied.
---I know I would use the stairs more. But will it really change us in the long run?
Eventually won't people be used to it and stop using the stairs? Some "fun things" can become boring and have to be constantly reinvented. I feel like it's hard for us as a society to stay satisfied.
Monday, August 22
concepts (study guide for Wed)
power over vs. power to get things done
power over 2 types: coercion vs legitimate authority
deferred gratification vs. instant gratification
the social class variation
socialization - that which comes fr "informal-go w the flow" quad: learning and integrating everyone into it
3 types of parenting: authoritarian, authoritative ... hmmm wht could the third one be? (next week)
4 types 4 social actions
MARX (German)
dialectic
materialism
species being
stood Hegel on his head!
religion is the opiate of the ppl
alienation - exploitation - capital
petty bourgeois and lumpen proletariat
DURKHEIM (French)
division of labor
regulation (top down) integration (bottom up)
mechanical and organic societies
repressive law and restitutive law (they "go with" mechanical and organic solidarity)
social facts
sacred and profane
God IS society
WEBER (German)
3 ways we make decisions: tradition, rationality, charisma (emotion-feeling)
Rationality - the Iron Rule of Bureaucracy - has taken over the Age of Enchantment
"Ideal types" - kind of like a measuring rod against which we measure instances of some form of social organization, e.g., bureaucracy. You never expect to see an ideal type in existence - it is just the measure.
Verstehen - this is "feeling" the other person so that you can get the meaning of action, since action only means what it means due to the meaning it has for the actor (remember the person tripping on the mat at the swimming pool)
Ideas can change the world: Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - the Calvinist notion that there was an "elect" created a new form of economic behavior among Americans and Europeans, but especially Americans.
SIMMEL (French)
sociology isn't the study of some big type of society we are in
sociology is events that happen between people: sociations <-- his word
there are FORMS of sociations:
size: big change from two to three (alliances form); big change from country to metropolis (have to relate to people on the surface - money begins to "count")
conflict - conflict from the outside can actually bring people in a group closer
flirting - when you show just a little, but not all
exchange - when between two people, each one gets what he wants
the stranger: <-- you know that one
Milgram Experiments
ascribed traits vs. achieved traits - and "Master Traits"
Fundamental Attribution Error
Socialization
Social Stratification Vs. Social Classes
The Looking Glass Self (Cooley)
Strong Networks and Weak Networks - and the Strength of Weak Networks
Erikson's stages
Mead's "Me" and "I"
The Looking Glass Self
3 types of parenting: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive
I and We - individualism or "the pack"
Geese in V - aerodynamic, vision, elimination, and rotation of leadership
MOVIE TERMS
premise: allows suspention of disbelief - allows you to 'get into' the movie
given circumstances (GC): social facts that precede the movie events
atmosphere: the more psychologial feeling at the outset of the movie - mental layer of GC
the whole movie + the main characters all have their own GCs
objective: what the character wants - most impt to know abt the character - fr beginning to end of movie arc
spine: what the character does - action - to get what she wants
PLOT POINT ONE - look for it about 30 min in
PLOT POINT TWO - look for it about 30 min before the end
Gender
Man and Woman are sex distinctions (natural); masculine and femine are gender differences (more cultural)
Deborah Tannen: girls talk to find sameness; boys play to establish "place" in the hierarchy
Women talk in private more; men talk in public more
Women start way "outside" a decision to negotiate with feelings; men start with the answer they want
Because we are different, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is not always the best rule between the sexes.
In business, women are not better negotiators
Rianne Eisler's "The Chalice and the Blade" comes up with a similar division: "Linking" and "Domination"
baby boys like to look at mechanical mobiles; baby girls like to look at faces
parents looking at babies and their first interactons with Jack in the Boxes attribute anger to the boys and fear to the girls.
Women earn 76 cents to the dollar that men earn
Domination - Linking
WE DIDN'T COVER THESE:Inner Direction - Outer Direction
The Power Elite
Labelling
"Doing", e.g., "doing" gender(indoctrination)
Socialization
Anticipatory socialization
Modeling
power over 2 types: coercion vs legitimate authority
deferred gratification vs. instant gratification
the social class variation
socialization - that which comes fr "informal-go w the flow" quad: learning and integrating everyone into it
3 types of parenting: authoritarian, authoritative ... hmmm wht could the third one be? (next week)
4 types 4 social actions
MARX (German)
dialectic
materialism
species being
stood Hegel on his head!
religion is the opiate of the ppl
alienation - exploitation - capital
petty bourgeois and lumpen proletariat
DURKHEIM (French)
division of labor
regulation (top down) integration (bottom up)
mechanical and organic societies
repressive law and restitutive law (they "go with" mechanical and organic solidarity)
social facts
sacred and profane
God IS society
WEBER (German)
3 ways we make decisions: tradition, rationality, charisma (emotion-feeling)
Rationality - the Iron Rule of Bureaucracy - has taken over the Age of Enchantment
"Ideal types" - kind of like a measuring rod against which we measure instances of some form of social organization, e.g., bureaucracy. You never expect to see an ideal type in existence - it is just the measure.
Verstehen - this is "feeling" the other person so that you can get the meaning of action, since action only means what it means due to the meaning it has for the actor (remember the person tripping on the mat at the swimming pool)
Ideas can change the world: Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - the Calvinist notion that there was an "elect" created a new form of economic behavior among Americans and Europeans, but especially Americans.
SIMMEL (French)
sociology isn't the study of some big type of society we are in
sociology is events that happen between people: sociations <-- his word
there are FORMS of sociations:
size: big change from two to three (alliances form); big change from country to metropolis (have to relate to people on the surface - money begins to "count")
conflict - conflict from the outside can actually bring people in a group closer
flirting - when you show just a little, but not all
exchange - when between two people, each one gets what he wants
the stranger: <-- you know that one
Milgram Experiments
ascribed traits vs. achieved traits - and "Master Traits"
Fundamental Attribution Error
Socialization
Social Stratification Vs. Social Classes
The Looking Glass Self (Cooley)
Strong Networks and Weak Networks - and the Strength of Weak Networks
Erikson's stages
Mead's "Me" and "I"
The Looking Glass Self
3 types of parenting: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive
I and We - individualism or "the pack"
Geese in V - aerodynamic, vision, elimination, and rotation of leadership
MOVIE TERMS
premise: allows suspention of disbelief - allows you to 'get into' the movie
given circumstances (GC): social facts that precede the movie events
atmosphere: the more psychologial feeling at the outset of the movie - mental layer of GC
the whole movie + the main characters all have their own GCs
objective: what the character wants - most impt to know abt the character - fr beginning to end of movie arc
spine: what the character does - action - to get what she wants
PLOT POINT ONE - look for it about 30 min in
PLOT POINT TWO - look for it about 30 min before the end
Gender
Man and Woman are sex distinctions (natural); masculine and femine are gender differences (more cultural)
Deborah Tannen: girls talk to find sameness; boys play to establish "place" in the hierarchy
Women talk in private more; men talk in public more
Women start way "outside" a decision to negotiate with feelings; men start with the answer they want
Because we are different, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is not always the best rule between the sexes.
In business, women are not better negotiators
Rianne Eisler's "The Chalice and the Blade" comes up with a similar division: "Linking" and "Domination"
baby boys like to look at mechanical mobiles; baby girls like to look at faces
parents looking at babies and their first interactons with Jack in the Boxes attribute anger to the boys and fear to the girls.
Women earn 76 cents to the dollar that men earn
Domination - Linking
WE DIDN'T COVER THESE:Inner Direction - Outer Direction
The Power Elite
Labelling
"Doing", e.g., "doing" gender(indoctrination)
Socialization
Anticipatory socialization
Modeling
Sunday, August 21
Friday, August 19
Is this the AMC theater?
lots of good choices http://www.laweekly.com/locations/amc-promenade-16-114796/
Wednesday, August 17
Tuesday, August 16
Project groups Alphas Thetas AND Omegas
ALPHAS.......................THETAS............................OMEGAS
Arjun ........................... Aaron ............................... Chris
Lissa............................. Jonathan .........................Marcus
Nima............................. Wade ................................ William
15-20 min
CONTENT: illustrate a concept (Link) METHOD: talk, discussion, power point, skit, video
Arjun ........................... Aaron ............................... Chris
Lissa............................. Jonathan .........................Marcus
Nima............................. Wade ................................ William
15-20 min
CONTENT: illustrate a concept (Link) METHOD: talk, discussion, power point, skit, video
Monday, August 15
Gender Moments this week
Chris Wallace interviewed Bachman. Now, I'm not a Bachman "supporter" but I thought it was interesting that he seemed to have gotten accustomed in the 4 years since he interviewed Hillary that he might be face to face with a woman in that position. Her answers were so quick, detailed (in their fashion) and unemotionally presented that he just had to move on. But then at the end he stopped and asked point blank: "Do you really think you can win?" She had a pretty much "Of course" type answer - so he asked again two more times. What did he mean? Because she was just a Congressman? Then say so. It seemed he meant because she is a pretty, 5'2" woman. Is that what he meant? I guess he would have asked Cain or Paul that question, too, huh? So it is incorrect to assume he asked it because she is a woman. Put your gender moments here - or write them up and hand them in.
other contenders for final paper movie
"The Piano" - put your contenders in comments....or link to prior posts.
Quotes by prominent sociologist
Famous Quotes from Sociology
"Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates." Erving Goffman
"The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time." Ashley Montagu
"Society is the old man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz." Gloria Steinheim
"I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached." C. Wright Mills
"Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?" C. Wright Mills
"Invention is the mother of necessity." Thorstein Veblen
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle." Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
"Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience." Charles H. Cooley
"The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values." C. Wright Mills.
"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness." Karl Marx
"Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it." Emile Durkheim
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opiate of the masses." Karl Marx
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." Margaret Sanger
"My basic postulate is that no cultural forms survive unless they constitute responses which are adjustive or adaptive." Clyde Kluckholn
"Habit is the great flywheel of society." William James
"The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society." That is its task and its promise." C. Wright Mills.
Sunday, August 14
Rioting - why?
Here is a pretty "far out there" guy's blog - I do not follow this blog, but a friend copy pasted it into an email and I read the whole thing. Interested to hear your response on the "why" of the rioting: both what he EXCLUDES as reasons and what he comes to as THE REASON. http://davidrothscum.blogspot.com/2011/08/london-is-your-future.html
Wednesday, August 10
An interesting documentary being made about social change in the universe
CCH's very own Cinematography teacher Stan Fisher is working on this great documentary that is both an optimistic eye opener and a breath of fresh air for changing our world's path beginning with each individual.
I want to know your reactions to this in regards to what you think it will be about, whether or not the trailer makes you want to see it, and what can be added or improved.
I personally admire their ambition to attempt something so universally involving, but with this attempt will come a lot more expectations from us, the audience. I've seen documentaries similar to this and I feel they all succeed in getting the word out and getting their point across that change begins with us. But, I often find myself half empty instead of half full because it sparks that motivation in us without providing us with the tangible resources and physical solutions to these problems...so they remain as these great ideas that appear so grand and overbearing that we lose that spark immediately and get brought back to our own personal realities, where the world is so big and the thought of reaching out and impacting it is an impossibility.
I want to repeat that I did admire the message in this film, and maybe my initial thought on its universal themes being too broad is just from my experience of being disappointed by prior films that tried to bring the idea full circle, but failed. I think as humans we all believe that the world will change and become better by itself, and we'll give our contributions but we can't invest all of our precious time in doing so... But I do have high hopes for this film, because it at least gets us to think positively and promotes the power each individual can really make.
I will end with my favorite quote from the trailer that sums up my beliefs and perspective on the world and its inhabitants.
"One day we'll wake up and discover we are family."
-Desmond Tutu
Tuesday, August 9
Thursday, August 4
Water on Mars?
Water on Mars?!
Suppose we ever do find intelligent life on other planets. How do you think their Sociology might compare to ours? Do you think their societies will be more organic or manufactured, or something entirely beyond what we know?
Suppose we ever do find intelligent life on other planets. How do you think their Sociology might compare to ours? Do you think their societies will be more organic or manufactured, or something entirely beyond what we know?
Wednesday, August 3
Tuesday, August 2
Monday, August 1
mid term selections - acquire now
either American Beauty or Million Dollar Baby
to write your paper on - due one week from Wednesday
you could watch them together in the DVD screening room
to write your paper on - due one week from Wednesday
you could watch them together in the DVD screening room
Movie to "save" for Aug 31
http://www.moviefone.com/august-movie-release-schedule
comment here for which one to reserve for our make up session
comment here for which one to reserve for our make up session
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