Caribbean Social Problems
Comprises of topics on the family, migration, inequality, work and unemployment and poverty.
- Created by: Sheeda F
- Created on: 19-11-12 16:15
Social Problem
A social condition (such as poverty), or a pattern of behaviour (such as substance abuse) that harms all or some people in a society and that a sufficient number of people believes warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change
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Sociological imagination
C. Wright Mills- The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Enable persons to make the connection between private problems and public issues. For example, Unemployment
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Micro level analysis
Focuses on small scale interactions between small groups and social interations between people
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Macro level analysis
Focuses on social processes existing on a societal level, especially in large organisations.
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Subjective awareness
A feeling of uneasiness about something, not founded on any concrete evidence that a problem exists. When a problem exists subjective awareness shifts to objective reality - when they person experiences the problem, or when it comes to pass.
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Theory
A set of logically related statements that attempt to describe, explain and predict social phenomena or events.
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Functionalist perspective
Views society as stable with interrelated parts which exist to provide the functional prerequisites within a society. August comte 1798-1857 (founder of society)
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Conflict theory
Conflict between groups in society. Lower class worker or the proletariat are exploited by the bourgosie. The upper class owns the means of productions and subsistence
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Symbolic interactionist
Look at the social interactions between small groups and individuals. Believe that symbols and meanings are produced through social interaction
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Norms
established rules of behaviours or standards of conduct
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Value
Collective ideas of what is right or wrong
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Manifest functions
Intended and recognised functions
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Latent functions
Unintended consequences of an activity or social process - Merton 1968
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Two conflict perspectives
Value conflict and critical conflict
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Value conflict
Social problems are conditions incompatible with group values. Discrepancies between ideal and real culture.
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Ideal and real culture
Ideal - values and beliefs people claim to hold. Real - Values and beliefs that are actually followed.
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Critical Conflict
Social problems arise from major contradictions within the way society is organised. Class inequalities in the economic system or gender, race inequalities
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Karl Marx 1818-1883
Class inequalities- Capitalism, an economic system characterised by private ownership of the means of production.
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Social Inequality
When a group or individual in society does not have equal social status or class
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Types of social inequality
Gender, Race and ethnicity, Class, Age, Sexual orientation, disability
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Social inequality of GENDER
Sex - Biological differences between female and male. Gender - social and cultural meanings attached to feminity and masculinity. Gender is learnt through socialisation
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Gender stratification
the ranking of the sexes, where women are unequal in power, opportunities and resources
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Gendered institutions
Patterned by gender
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Agents of socialisation
Primary - Family. Secondary - Peers (members of social groups linked by common interests), Education (sexual harassment - unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favours or physical conduct of a sexual nature), sports and the media - powerful
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Types of gender inequality
Individual sexism, Institutionalised sexism, Patriarchy, Linguistic sexism
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Individual sexism
Beliefs and actions of individuals rooted in anti-female prejudice and stereotypic beliefs
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Institutionalized sexism
The power men have to engage in sex discrimination at the organisational levels of society
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Patriarchy
A hierarchical structure where men dominate the cultural, political and economic structures within a society
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Five forms that contribute to gender inequality
Segregated work(pink collar/contingent), wage gap, sexual harassment, the glass ceiling/glass escalator effect and the double shift/second shift
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Glass ceiling/glass escalator effect
invisible barriers (glass) through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them in the workforce
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Linguistic sexism (symbolic interactionist)
Communication that ignores and devalues one sex or the other, mostly women (*****, ****)
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Instrumental tasks (functionalist perspective)
Goal oriented - Men provide economic support and make the important decisions within the family
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Expressive tasks (functionalist perspective)
Emotionally oriented - Women nurture children and provide emotional supprt for the family. Procreation and socialisation of children
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Conflict theory on Gender inequality
Capitalism exploits women in the workplace and patriarchy exploits women in the home.
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Inequalit of CLASS
Inequality based on the ownership and control of resources and the type of work people do
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Social stratification
the placement of individuals into social groups based on their control over basic resources
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Social mobility
The upward and downward movement in the class system, occurs during a person's lifetime or from one generation to the other.
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Types of social mobility
Upward, downward, horizontal, vertical, structural, exchange, intergenerational and intragenerational
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Horizontal mobility
Change in position but within the same status
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Vertical mobility
movement of an individual from one status to another, higher or lower
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Inter generational mobility
Changes in the status of family members from one generation to the next
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Intra generational mobility- career
advancement of one's social level throughout his lifetime
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
C. Wright Mills- The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Enable persons to make the connection between private problems and public issues. For example, Unemployment
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Sociological imagination
Card 3
Front
Focuses on small scale interactions between small groups and social interations between people
Back
Card 4
Front
Focuses on social processes existing on a societal level, especially in large organisations.
Back
Card 5
Front
A feeling of uneasiness about something, not founded on any concrete evidence that a problem exists. When a problem exists subjective awareness shifts to objective reality - when they person experiences the problem, or when it comes to pass.
Back
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