SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Fact, Dominant Culture, Reality Television

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

Soc 202 lecture 1 ----class 2 january 19, 2017. We interact with others, and live in groups performing social roles: male/female; mom/dad; boss/employee. We engage in production, exchange, education, consumption. We produce and share popular culture like instagram. Social groups can be small (like our class) Or large: canadians, political groups, students on campus. We recognize that personal experience are affected by our class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. We can have a different experience doing the same thing. Sociologist research enables us to discuss social issue in an informed and critical manner. Looks for (and at) social patterns in social variable, social institutions, and social interactions. C. wright mills coined the term sociological imagination make the connection between how society works and our personal lives) See our lives in the lives of others privilege, shared experience, difference. A system of shared beliefs, values, customs and behaviors we use to negotiate the world around us.