SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social System, Social Distance
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Exam: first three chapters of ethnicity of nationalism, guiberneau + rex (pgs. 1-33: 17 mc, 3 essay questions(roughly 50% weighing for both mc and essay questions) Chicago and manchester schools: each have a different theoretical background, chicago: weberian , focuses on symbols, micro-theory, manchester: macro- theory , durkheim. ~100 years ago, 75% of chicago population = immigrants. Chicago = ethnic laboratory for understanding how groups formed. Chicago school wanted to test this idea: ecology of the city . How different social groups within a city behave and interact. How different groups form, found each other, interactions within groups and with other groups: assimilation cycle: Contact: individuals from other parts of the world, arriving in chicago, had contact with each other, and associated with each other in a meaningful way: usually through language, or other easily identifiable markers. Competition: competition between groups for a place in the economic and social system within chicago: eventually, this competition declines decline, leading onto .