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COMS 3332 FINAL TTU| Questions with100% Solutions/Verified Answers
In Karl Marx's social theory, what is the base? - ANSWER Economy. Economic reality
determines your values, ideas, beliefs, and ideals.
In Karl Marx's social theory, what is superstructure? - ANSWER All the parts of society
that perpetuates our values, ideas, beliefs, therefore creating laws, religion,
knowledge, and family.
Bourgeois (Marx) - ANSWER Owners of production.
Proletariat (Marx) - ANSWER Workers.
Marx viewed ideology as what? What does he mean by this term? - ANSWER False
consciousness. In a capitalist culture workers do not benefit economically, you have
to distort reality. Workers have to believe they will benefit too so they will keep
working.
Power (Weber) - ANSWER Ability of an actor to assert his will to command resources.
Prestige (Weber) - ANSWER Status or "social honor".
Property (Weber) - ANSWER - Property Owners: wealth and property, in control of
social class.
- Property Less: Skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled.
, What is social power? (Weber) - ANSWER Ability of an actor to assert his will ability
to command resources.
Charisma (Weber Social Power) - ANSWER Individual personality, by virtue of which he is
set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman,
or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. Example: Trump.
Traditional Authority (Weber Social Power) - ANSWER Roles. Example: Professor
> Student. Boss > Employee.
Legal Authority (Weber Social Power) - ANSWER Government.
Economic (Bourdieu Social Capital) - ANSWER Income and wealth.
Cultural (Bourdieu Social Capital) - ANSWER Conditions of birth and family,
education and skills acquired.
Social (Bourdieu Social Capital) - ANSWER Network of relations.
What is the American Dream? - ANSWER Big house, money, family, famous, successful.
In what ways is the American Dream real? In what ways is it a myth? - ANSWER
With education and hard work, you can achieve those things, but not everyone has
equal access to education and it is hard to change social classes.
Percentage-wise, a child born into poverty in the United States has what chance of
upward class mobility? - ANSWER 8%
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