Relate Giddens abstract systems to the effect of Superstorm Sandy on New Jersey and its residents.

What will be an ideal response?


Abstract systems rely on experts for their operation and many of us have limited understanding, choice, or control over these systems. When these abstract systems fail to produce a familiar, reliable outcome, they not only produce mistrust of the systems themselves but also generate feelings of angst and dread as people face evidence of their own vulnerability within those systems. Modern humans do not just interact with nature, but with a series of abstract institutions that moderate and regulate this interaction. Thus, experience with nature, and even experience with “natural” disasters, reflects our interactions with and feelings about abstract social systems. We rely on meteorologists and emergency management officials to determine how dangerous a storm is.

Sociology

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What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

Normative agreements about what emotions are to be revealed to others in encounters are termed:

a. display rules b. feeling rules c. emotion work d. frames

Sociology

Perrow explains that we had a surge of giant organizations at the end of the 19th century because of

a. the industrial revolution. b. the information revolution. c. the railroad. d. the automobile.

Sociology

Women continue to pursue educational degrees in fields typically associated with femininity even though

a)  women consist of most college students. b)  men continue to pursue feminine careers. c)  women and men go to college at the same rate. d)  gender is no longer a factor in education.

Sociology