Midterm

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How does Marx theorize that order is maintained in society?

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Order is maintained through conflict between an upper and lower classes.

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What did C. Wright Mills call the relationship between personal experience and the wider society that you live in?

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Sociological Imagination

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What did Marx mean by alienation?

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Alienation is the estrangement of workers from their labor, the products they create, their fellow workers, and their own human potential.

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For Marx, the Economic Base (means of production, bourgeoise) shapes the _______ and this in turn maintains the base.

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Superstructure

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What did Tocqueville call the voluntary associations, groups, and organizations that existed between the individual and the government? (He saw them as essential to the function of a democratic government)

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civil society

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What is the name of Nietzsche's famous idea that humans have a fundamental drive for self-affirmation, individuality, and the pursuit of one's own values and goals?

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Will to Power

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Adam Smith's concept that if we leave individuals (who are driven by self-interest) alone, they will make decisions that naturally regulate the economy.

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The invisible hand

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Veblen's theory that people spend more money on products to show that they have wealth and to gain social status is called...

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conspicuous consumption

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What does Coleman mean by "Social Capital"?

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Social Capital is the resources and benefits that are gained through their social networks and relationships.

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What is Smith's main point of his "Theory of Moral Sentiments"?

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Individuals have an innate sense of moral conscience and that our moral judgments are influenced by our ability to empathize with the feelings and perspectives of others; capitalism can't work without sympathy.