SOCL 2001 : Final Exam Notes
Document Summary
Civil religion, sects, functionalists and conflict perspectives on religion. Claimed that you have a connected presence with people without having a physical proximity. Digital interaction: 2008 pew study of 2500 american adults, said that heavy users are more likely to have large and diverse" social networks, is it true, what do we consider large and diverse?". Interlocking: your direct contacts know each other, closed, good circulation of info, people tend to know the same, radial things, your direct contacts don"t know each other (as much, segregate into separate grouping, open. Power and dependence: when dependence is high, power is low, the more sources there are, the less dependence on any one source. Avoiding dependence: what to do when you have nothing to exchange, coercion (use of threats and negative solutions, have something the other wants, develop alternatives, do without, otherwise you must indicate compliance (place yourself in debt)
