New Deal

Examples of New Deal in the following topics:

• African Americans as a Political Force

  • Roosevelt's New Deal program provided economic relief for African Americans.
  • Roosevelt's New Deal coalition turned the Democratic Party into an organization of the working class and their liberal allies, regardless of region.

• Modernization and Technology

  • Modernization deals with social change from agrarian societies to industrial ones, with new technologies playing an important role.
  • New technology is a major source of social change.
  • Modernization deals with social change from agrarian societies to industrial ones, so it is important to look at technology changes across contexts.
  • New technologies do not change societies by themselves.
  • Frequently, a new technology will be recognized but not put to use for a very long time.

• The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood

  • Whereas the idea of the father complex had originally evolved to deal with the heavy Victorian patriarch, by the new millennium there had developed instead a postmodern preoccupation with the loss of paternal authority, or the absence of the father.

• Culture Shock

  • During the first few weeks, most people are fascinated by the new culture.
  • This period is full of observations and new discoveries.
  • People adjusting to a new culture often feel lonely and homesick because they are not yet used to the new environment and meet people with whom they are not familiar every day.
  • One knows what to expect in most situations and the host country no longer feels all that new.
  • One starts to develop problem-solving skills for dealing with the culture and begins to accept the culture's ways with a positive attitude.

• Introduction to betweenness centrality

  • Suppose that I want to influence you by sending you information, or make a deal to exchange some resources.
  • For example, let's suppose that I wanted to try to convince the Chancellor of my university to buy me a new computer.
  • Freeman, Borgatti, and White extended the basic approach to deal with valued relations.

• New State Spaces

  • New state spaces are redefining borders, and they may not be ruled by national governments.
  • A global city is a city that is central to the global economic system, such as New York or London.
  • Another example of a new state space is seen in regional and international governments such as the European Union.
  • It was originally formed to encourage and enable economic cooperation, but has grown to have a good deal of political power, most notably directing a Common Agricultural Policy for member states.
  • New state spaces are evolving at both the local level (global cities) and the international level (the European Union).

• Global Crime

  • Some espouse that all organized crime operates at an international level, though there is currently no international court capable of trying offences resulting from such activities (for example, the International Criminal Court's remit extends only to dealing with people accused of offences against humanity, such as genocide ).
  • The Ad Hoc Committee established by the United Nations General Assembly is to deal with this problem by taking a series of measures against transnational organized crime.
  • These include the creation of domestic criminal offences to combat the problem, and the adoption of new, sweeping frameworks for mutual legal assistance, extradition, law-enforcement cooperation and technical assistance and training.

• Sociology of Emotion

  • As sociology emerged, primarily as a reaction to the negative affects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with "emotion" without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal "species-being," Simmel wrote of the deindividualizing tendencies of "the metropolis," and Weber's work dealt with the rationalizing effect of modernity in general.
  • Systematic observations of group interaction found that a substantial portion of group activity is devoted to the socio-emotional issues of expressing affect and dealing with tension.
  • Peggy Thoits: She divided emotion management techniques into implementation of new events and reinterpretation of past events.

• Cultural Transmission

  • Cultural transmission is the way a group of people within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on new information.
  • Cultural transmission is the way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on new information.
  • On the basis of cultural learning, people create, remember, and deal with ideas.
  • Cultural learning is dependent on innovation or the ability to create new responses to the environment and the ability to communicate or imitate the behavior of others.

• Isolation and Development

  • Social relationships can also connect people with diffuse social networks that facilitate access to a wide range of resources supportive of health, such as medical referral networks, access to others dealing with similar problems, or opportunities to acquire needed resources via jobs, shopping, or financial institutions.
  • Sociologists debate whether new technologies, such as the Internet and mobile phones exacerbate social isolation or could help overcome it.