Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Clustering Illusion, Extremism
25 Jun 2017
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Relative deprivation theory: being deprived of something you feel entitled to engineers who graduate expect high social status but may face limited job prospects = fury. Need for cognitive closure + preference for order + distaste for ambiguity (uncertainness) Need for closure can figure into violent extremism. Survey of students in 4 engineering programs: answers showed drops in measures of public- mindedness + commitment to professional/ethical responsibilities and social consciousness: arch: pg 29-34. In less advanced cultures, production was for the customer who ordered the product so that the producer and purchaser knew one another but nowadays productions are entirely for unknown consumers. Metropolitan life can only exist in the most punctual way in a fixed framework of time (punctuality, calculability and exactness: arch: pg 48-52. Universities focus more on making money than equipping students with the tools to get a job. Party pathways should be challenged and funding towards frats and sororities should be taken away.
