SOC 656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Burkini, Symbolic Interactionism, Islamophobia
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Ban on burkinis islamophobia france is secular. Social group which is defined as a crowd. (picture of people at the nasa shuttle launch) Agency the ability and freedom of an individual to act how much you can be an individual in society. Structure is society and its rules for society official rules. Sociology is an academic discipline mix of science and humanities. Science pure science, applied science, social science. Humanities visual arts, performing arts, religion. Mix of both law injustice, history. It can be emergent in its procedures and criteria rather than fixed and measurable. Humans aren"t generally factual beings don"t always behave in ways that are measurable and consistent. Shows status, professions through how one dresses form of communication to others. Classical sociological perspectives: o structural functionalism o conflict theory o symbolic interactionism. Postmodern perspectives: o feminism o queer threry. This theory focuses of the individual instead of society like the two previous theories founder is.