SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Hip Hop, The Sociological Imagination, Bell Hooks
17 Apr 2016
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Personal experiences are affected by our class, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. Gender: differences in color (blue/pink), and is seen in toys, producer objects. Pattern: people are affected by technology affects our social patterns. Author bell hooks: discuss social issues in an informed and critical manner . Video: idea of rethinking our educational ideas, focus less on tools and more on critical thinking. Shares common interest with psychology, anthropology, and political science, but distinguished itself from other disciplines through its history, vocabulary and tools. Concerned with society (distinct from political, legal and economic institutions. Examines different kind of societies of totalities (sum of interconnected social elements and the ways they are interconnected) Explanation, analysis and debate about grasping contemporary or modern life, and how modernity came to dominate the world. Social science that studies the development, structure, and functioning of human society. Patterns in social variables, social institutions, and social interactions. Think of a network, trying to connect everything,
