SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Control, Cultural Relativism, Culture Shock
19 Apr 2013
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The collection of prejudice acquired by the age 18 albert einstein. Naked emperor, magic cloth can"t see if you are stupid. Just because the whole believes something to be true, doesn"t mean that it is. Issues of power are tied up in our everyday interactions. Standards of behavior, generally accepted ways of doing things. Expected to pay tickets, give up seats to elderly on the bus. Neither the life of the individual nor the history of society can be understood without understanding both c. wright mills. Boycotting for a year which lead to race segregation on the bus to be repealed. An individual"s likelihood to commit suicide is related to social solidarity: how integrated a person is into society. Using the standards of your own culture to evaluate and judge another culture. Positivism: assumption that society operates according to the set of laws that can be discovered through objective study and research.
