Kentucky, SOC 101

Excerpt: ... to which people feel they belong. Regarded as anyone viewed as "we" or "us" o Out-group is any group of people which feel they do not belong. o Behavior viewed by others as unacceptable. o Conflict between in-groups and out-groups can be violent. Example: Columbine High School in 1999. o Reference Groups any group that individual's use as a standar for evaluating themselves and their own behavior. o Two basic purposes: o They serve a normative function by setting and enforcing standards of conduct and belief. o They perform a comparative function by serving as standard against which people can measure themselves and others. Group size can alter the quality of social relationships. In larger groups each member has less time to speak, more points of view to absorb, and a more elaborate structure to function in. It is easier to disregard someone in a larger group than it is in a smaller group. George Simmel (1858-1918) first studied group dynamics. o Formal Organizations and Bureaucracies o A formal organ ...

Virginia Tech, SOC 1004

Excerpt: ... Exam 2 Lecture questions Ch. 4: 7 questions Ch. 5: 7 questions Pgs 308-312: 3 questions Small Groups & Formal Organizations 1. Size (Georg Simmel, 1880s) Dyads (2) group interaction terminates if one member leaves o Both groups consciously try not t ...

Iowa State, SOC 134

Excerpt: ... Sample Questions Sociology 134 Test yourself with these questions just like you were taking the examination. Then check your answers with the correct answers at the bottom. 1. Which of the following is a belief held by most Americans? a. There is li ...

Georgia Tech, CS 6455

Excerpt: ... Qualitative Methods Background 1 Reminder: What are Qualitative Methods? Types of Qualitative Data Gathering Method - Interviewing - Observation Types of Qualitative Data Analysis Method - Grounded Theory - Inductive Analysis Qualitative Metho ...

Tulane, SOCI 322

Excerpt: ... Social Theory-Sociology 322 Fall, 2007 Professor Michele Adams Exam #2 will be on Thursday, December 6, and will focus on all course material (readings, lectures, and class discussions) from Exam #1 through and including Tuesday, December 4, but it m ...

UCSB, SOC 1

Excerpt: ... inherent in the mark of the plural with radical solidarity, emphasizing the things that unite them and suppressing the things that divide them Troubles C. Wright Mills a part of the sociological imagination, which is created by C. Wright Mills. Troubles occur within the character of an individual and within the range of immediate relations with others; they have to do with the self and those limited areas of social life of which we are directly and personally aware The metropolis, Blas attitude george simmel cities produce anonymity and an unmerciful matter-of-factness and indifference to others. It produces a blas attitude which means an attitude of indifference and detachment due to repeated exposure. a life in boundless pursuit of pleasure makes on blas b/c it agitates the nerves to their strongest reactivity for such a long time that they finally cease to react at all Antipathy-how it arises out of the metropolis and blas attitude Maternalism a ...

Colorado, SOCY 3001

Excerpt: ... y vs quality (#1 value meal, not burg/fri/coke) (I billion sold vs quality burgers advert.) - Irrationality: - non-human (technological) control: growing automation, fries/soda automated Enchanting a Disenchanted World A postmodern theory (response to McD) Contemporary efforts to Re-enchant (the consumer) via: extravaganza (tool to attract people) simulacra (simulation/fakes) (rainforest caf) Implosion (de-differentiation) (walmart/ supertarget) The Globalization of Nothing Nothing: social form that is centrally conceived, controlled, and comparatively devoid of distinctive substantive content Something: a social form that is indigenously conceived, controlled and comparatively rich in distinctive content -leading to both Grobalization (something is completely lost and nothing gains foothold) + Grocalization (nothing comes together with something, global fast food using local products) George Simmel cont. SociationsWhat is society- located in forms of interaction/ rests in sociations Numbers and ...

Virginia Tech, SOC 1004

Excerpt: ... History of Sociology Great Person Approach In Western Europe, a key development in science was the protestant reformation. Up until that point, the catholic church dominated. There was a union of church and state. This is around the 1500-1600s. The ...

Hobe Sound, HNRS 231

Excerpt: ... The Geometric Style, p. 226 and 340. Eleanor O'Connor 1895-P. Rioux de Maillou, The Decorative Arts and the Machine, p. 184 November 1 Diana Simpson 1895-Henry van de Velde, Observations Toward a Synthesis of Art, p. 194 Kate Beach 1897-Samuel Bing, Where are We Going?, p. 71 November 1 Laeun Sung 1897-Alois Riegl, A Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, p. 105 Kate Dobie 1899-Adolf von Hildebrand, Hand Work-Machine Work, p. 177 November 8 and November 29 Jenny Lynn 1901-Frank Lloyd Wright, The Art and Craft of the Machine, p. 201 Diana Simpson 1907-Hermann Muthesius, The Significance of Applied Art, p. 74 Brandon Agnew 1908- George Simmel , Adornment, p. 116 Kimberly Shrader 1910-Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime, p. 288 Eleanor O'Connor 1912-Karl Grosz, Ornament, p. 295 1919-Walter Gropius, Manifesto of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar, p. 83 Anne Wise 1925-Le Corbusier, Type-Needs: Type-Furniture, p. 84 and The Decorative Art of Today, p. 213 Jennifer Horswell 1934-Henri Focillon, Forms in the Realm of Spac ...

Washington, ENGL 131

Excerpt: ... Brian Lau 4/16/07 Claim Proposal Georg Simmel argues that being a stranger incorporates both "a state of detachment from every given point in space" (184) and "the conceptual opposite of attachment to any point." (184) Simply said, a stranger is one ...

Oakland University, ARCHITECTU 20

Excerpt: ... To The Age Its Art To Art Its Freedom Problem: "The Psychological basis off the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimul ...

Purdue, SOC 367

Excerpt: ... Theories of Religion 1: Macro: Simmel, Durkheim, Berger, Marx Friday, January 11, 2008 12:32 PM Theory guides research, so. we're going over theories first! Georg Simmel (Chicken or eggs) Patterns of non-religious social interaction influence reli ...