SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Sociological Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality
17 Oct 2013
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Sociology can be broken down into three categories: a way of thinking about the world, it"s a study of social life, the concepts the theories the idea, the ways in which we talk about and study sociology. Ex) norms, socializations, different methods for sociology- stats, interviews etc: the results of the systematic study, what do we know about society, inequality etc. General patterns- finding out what"s happening in patterns. How des this pattern of behaviours look like when we look at the general population, by observation, asking and watching. We are interested in more than one person and what they are doing. Farmers- very important job, avg. farm makes just over 100,000/year. We value these people very little and we don"t give them the right worth. Ex) guys don"t wear skirts because it is a cultural norm that just girls wear them.
