SOCI 100A Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Sociology, Canada, Anomie
12 Oct 2018
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SOCI 100A
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
•Agency: a person’s ability to cut their own pace, and make their
own decisions.
•Structure: refers to the opportunities and constraints that exist
within a network of roles and responsibilities that remain
relatively stable and persistent over time regardless of individual
skills or abilities.
•Peter Berger points out that sociologists:
(practice these terms and bring them to bruce in his office)
1) See the general in the particular:
- your anxiety about university- is a degree from UVic as good
as a Certificate from BCIT? (everybody in the classroom is
thinking the same thing).
-Pressure on women to be thin and beautiful and men to be
strong and rich.
- for an exam you would have to teach the general and the
particular using your own PERSONAL example (nothing from the
textbook or notes, exams are not about memorizing in this
course).
- an example could be that statistics revolving around suicide,
or fentanyl overdoeses and how they are really people loved by
real people and not just numbers.
2) See the strange in the familiar:
- Nothing is normal, there is nothing every single person does
the same! 9 everything that is familiar to ourselves is
actually strange).
- Most of the things we do in our society is very bizzare and
strange
- Putting on make-up is strange, breast reduction surgery is
strange.
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-You are a l l s o n i c e a n d polite ( w e p l a y t h e role ). E v e n i f w e
don’t like someone.
-Even with our smartphones and social media, many of us are
lonely. ( so bizzare!!!!!)
-Law is black and white (it doesn’t matter where you come
from/ your culture).
You should b e a b l e t o t e acher a l l t h e s e c o n c e p ts to
a student that has never taken sociology
•Good sociology helps you see the world as it really is and
inspires you to change it. “in the end, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” MLK
Jr.
Read: the promise of sociology by CW Mills (you will be TESTED on
this)
CW Mills and the other Sociological Perspectives
Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) published “The Sociological
Imagination” in 1959.
(Sociology is the way you interact society and society interacts with
you.
Some Sociologists believe these concepts…Everything we do is the
definition of the society around us, that voice in your head is the
voice of your society, you as an individual do not exist everything
you preseave of and do is society.)
Mills believed that what defines sociology is its focus on the dynamic
relationship between the individual and society.
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