Sociology week 7-8

happiness is strongly influenced by

your genes

social capital

Networks and connections that provide opportunities and improve life chances -Its not what you know, its who you know

Mortgage Interest Deduction

(MID) Helps the rich more than the poor perhaps

reading emotions has helped us in three ways

1. Facilitating interpersonal bonds 2. Synchronizing behavior 3. communication information

how many degrees of separation does happiness and sadness spread

3, then peters out

socioeconomic status (SES)

A division of class based on occupation, income, and education.

experience sampling method

A methodology where participants report on their momentary thoughts, feelings, and behaviors at different points in time over the course of a day. to find out how emotions spread

life chances

Advantages people have due to resources and privledge they are born with

Halliburton and Cheney

Famous quid pro quo case where cheney made money by giving his friends

affordable housing

Housing that costs 30% or less of families income

US tax code: AIG loophole

Insurance company lobbied to get a loophole written into law

types of MPI

Pure-anxiety type motor type

Structure

Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer

income

Salary/wage, What people receive for labor

social mobility

a change in position within the social hierarchy, depicted by housing, education, and health

wealth

all forms of money, all assets minus debt, or net worth

un happy people

are at the fringes of social networks

Bourgeoisie and politicians

are in the same social class and engage in quid pro quo

Parental income and test score

higher income=Higher test score

Prosopagnosia

inability to recognize faces

cultural capital

insider knowledge of upper class language, clothing brands, car brands, business cards

Epidemic Hysteria

mass psychogenic illness

mirror neuron system

neurons that respond to your own or someone else's actions; help in imitation

Americas decline in these is making poor poorer

stable well paying jobs access to affordable education access to quality and reasonably priced healthcare weakening of Unions

Matthew Desmond

the author of Evicted, reported that millions of families are evicted from their homes each year. According to Desmond's findings, identify the factors that contributed to this high rate of eviction.

mass psychogenic illness

the occurrence in a group of people of similar physical symptoms with no known physical cause

Proust phenomenon

the power of odors to elicit memories that are especially old and vivid.

emotional contagion

the process by which emotions are transferred from one person to another