SOC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ingroups And Outgroups, Deindustrialization, Living Wage
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Unit 1: sociology as a way of thinking. The flip - flipping your consciousness, viewing things from a different angle (berger) seeing the strange in the familiar, in the familiar in the strange (nacirema) What it takes: creativity, a skeptical stance ( art of mistrust , things are not what they seem , a critical mind ( seeing through & looking behind , discipline. Have a rigorous approach in your method & in your mind. Where should you look: social self, social situations, interplay/intersection of individuals and society, of biography and history. People do make their own history, but they do so under constraints under circumstances already existing. Individuals are seldom aware of their own lives and the course of history. (mills). All kinds of structural transformations that shape and affect people"s lives. Troubles are personal problems, issues are when they become a bigger problem affecting more people. Without this there would be no interactions (awkward)
