1. SOCIETY UNDERSTANDING ITS FOUNDATIONS AND ITS COMPLEXITIES

2. 1. CULTURE Material Non-Material

3. 2. NORMS The Social Behaviors we most commonly expect to encounter

4. LEVELS OF NORMS 1)Morés 2)Customs 3)Folkways

5. NEGATIVE RESPONSES FOR FAILURE TO CONFORM TO NORMS Sanctions Stigma

6. SOCIETIES ARE DIVERSE Encounters between diverse social groups lead to social responses that may be positive or negative in their impact

7. CULTURE SHOCK Encountering Behavior so different from the norm it is difficult to understand or accept

8. CULTURAL RELATIVISM Analysis in which judgment emerges finding behavior that is acceptable in one society may not be acceptable in others

9. ETHNOCENTRIC COMPARISON AND JUDGMENT Comparing cultures using one’s own culture as the standard for comparison

10. BLAME ANALYSIS A Product of Culture Shock, Relativism and Ethnocentric Judgment Blaming Those Who are Visible and Different

11. All of the Preceding are essential to understanding the Development of Society, and understanding processes of Socialization

12. SOCIALIZATION The process(es) of learning to be a member of society; a social performer

13. THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS Lifelong Complex Product of Numerous and Diverse Variables

14. VARIABLES OF THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS 1.INDIVIDUAL 2.AGENCY

15. INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF SELF

16. Gender Age Race Ethnicity Unique Individual Experience

17. AGENCY Structural Forces with Authority and Power

18. LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY EDUCATION SYSTEM LAW – GOVERNMENT / DMV CORPORATE STRUCTURES MASS MEDIA RELIGION HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

19. STRATIFICATION – DIVISION OF SOCIETY INTO MEASURABLE LAYERS CLASS STATUS

20. STRATIFICATION AND CLASS The Measurable Division of Society

21. Two Primary Questions to Address: Why does stratification occur? How does stratification occur?

22. SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Slavery Caste Estate System Social Class System

23. ECONOMICALLY BASED SOCIAL CLASS POSITION WITHIN THE SOCIAL CLASS SYSTEM IS: FLUID ACHIEVED ECONOMICALLY BASED LARGE SCALE AND IMPERSONAL

24. THE REALITY OF SOCIAL CLASS CLASS DIVISIONS ARE REAL, ARE POWERFUL IN THEIR SOCIAL IMPACT, AND ARE MEASURED BY: 1.INCOME 2.PERSONAL WEALTH

25. DIVISION BY INCOME INCOME CHANGE SINCE 1999: 1.WEALTHIEST 1% SAW INCOME RISE AVG. OF 9% 2.BOTTOM 20% SAW INCOME DECLINE 2.5% 3.MIDDLE 20% SAW INCOME RISE 1.3%

26. DIVISION BY INCOME INCOME GAP SINCE 1999: 1.TOP 20% EARNED 7x THAT OF POOREST 20% 2.WEALTHIEST EXPERIENCING INCOME GROWTH AT DOUBLE THAT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

27. DIVISION BY INCOME 1.TOP 1% EARNED 21.2% OF INCOME (1/100 EARNED 1/5 OF INCOME) 2.TOP 10% EARNED 46.44% OF INCOME 3.BOTTOM 50% EARNED 12.83% OF INCOME

28. DIVISION OF WEALTH DATA TAKEN FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH AMONG A SMALL NUMBER OF FAMILIES

30. SOCIAL MOBILITY 1.VERTICAL MOVEMENT IS ANTICIPATED AND EXPECTED 2.INTRAGENERATIONAL 3.INTERGENERATIONAL MOVEMENT IS BASED ON STRUCTURE AND EXCHANGE

31. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Conflict Theory – Economically Based; Class System Dominates Based on Control Systems Functional Theory – Based on Social Imbalance, beginning with Industrialization Symbolic Interaction Theory – Based on and Perpetuated by Perceivable Differences; Weber introduces concept of Status as Mitigator of Power of Social Class