SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Realistic Conflict Theory, Week, Trait Theory

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Katherine Corrigall- Brown

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Soci jan 26th: different societites divide time in different way s, 3 days to 19day weeks, once we decide on a 7 day week, we set up other things to fit with this schedule. Thomas principle: (cid:498))f (cid:523)people(cid:524) define situations as real, then they are real in their consequences(cid:499: real reality isn"t as important as our perceived reality. )f a witch drowned than she wasn"t a witch, if she didn"t than she was: examples: witch trials, communist trials and ghost either way she would die. Prejudice: a negative attitude towards someone based on his or her membership in a group: we have all seen or experienced prejudice, allowing few people to enter the store, having a young guys insurance. Compare of prejudice: males are more, older are more. It cannot just be a personality trait with which some people are born: this cannot explain why rates of prejudice are different in different places and times.