Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Discourse Analysis, Higher-Order Thinking, Outlaw Motorcycle Club
5 Dec 2016
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Norms society"s expectations for how we think, act, and look. Normative behaviours, appearances, and thoughts that correspond to society"s norms growing up in a speci c family or community and having set principles and ways of acting. Canadian post-secondary education - it corresponds to norms about the kind of education people need before entering the workforce. Micro level the level of individual experiences + choices individual experiences - going to class each morning. Macro level the level of broader social forces life chances, norms, social institutions. Sociological imagination the ability to perceive the interconnections between individual experiences and larger sociocultural forces. Empirical methods data collection that produces veri able ndings and is carried out using systematic procedures. Theory a set of propositions intended to explain a fact or a phenomenon use sociological imagine to explore body modi cation why a particular person gets a tattoo/piercing (answer may tell us something speci c about that one individual.
