SOCI 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dependency Ratio, Transnationalism, Cultural Capital
Document Summary
Explain how the sociological imagination can be used to understand current social issues and processes sociological imagination: ability to understand this complex interactive relationship between micro-level individual experiences and macro-level public issues. Manifest functions: the planned outcomes of social organizations or institutions. Means of production: property, machinery, and cash owned by capitalists. Latent functions: unplanned or unintended consequences of actions or of social structures. Identify factors that contribute to different types of levels of stratification and social mobility property, power, and prestige. Identify factors that contribute to poverty and food insecurity. The lack of government aid to help those in poverty leads to food insecurity. Other government programs like lack of universal health care plays a role in both poverty and food insecurity. Lack of resources in general leads to both problems. Explain what it means to say that race/ethnicity and gender are socially constructed. It means that race, ethnicity, and gender only exist because we make them exist.
