SOCIOL 2SS3 Midterm: Midterm Exam Notes

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Analytic framework: micro: focuses on the smallest levels of interaction; examines patterns of intimate social relations formed during face-to-face interaction. Meso: focuses on patterns of social relations in organizations / larger groups; involve people who are not usually intimately acquainted and who often do not interact face-to-face. Macro: attention the broad social forces that shape how a society is put together (e. g. , systems of power like patriarchy or male domination. Global: patterns of social relations that lie outside and above the national level. Transformation of work: tribalism to slavery to feudalism to capitalism. Feudalism: nstitutionalized system of land distribution that was given to lords under a royalty system. Peasants and serfs have small plots of land (on the lords land) Emerged with landlessness the removal of people from the land. Construction of a body of ideas that explains and justifies reality for people --- the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas (marx)