SOC 1200 Lecture 6: Sociology Lecture 6
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Typi cation part of our stocks of knowledge, allows us to bring a great deal of knowledge to bear on a single episode. Social structure stable patterns of social relationships. That exist within a particular group or society. Also applies to any enduring predictable pattern of social behaviour. Dead hands of the past shapes us. Gender - example of the robbers chasing the woman until she came to the women room, he stopped outside location identity. How to fall in love: micro-world and macro-world interaction. 1) face to face interaction proximity (propinquity) [micro-world: neighbourhoods are class based, so since neighbourhoods are organized by social class [macro-world, class structure the way we dress and behave. Sociological imagination: the capacity to more from biography [personal trouble] or to mach social structures and see the interaction as unfolding in historical contexts. illustration: exams as institution: If someone does bad because they didn"t study - personal trouble.