SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sexual Orientation, Mass Media, Neoliberalism
What is sociology
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Systematic study of human action in context
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Dynamic, growing discipline, full of possibilities
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Critique of neo-liberal subject
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Opportunities and constraints are not evenly distributed
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Agency and Structure
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Fundamental questions to answer
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What is real
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Ontology
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How do we know what we know
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Epistemology
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Connection with other fields
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Enlightenment
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Have to make population happy
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Democratization
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Founding figures
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Emergence of Sociology
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Culture
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Social interaction
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Class and stratification
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Gender
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Crime and deviance
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Global inequality
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Mass media
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Environment
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Religion
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Socialization
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Groups and organizations
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Race and ethnicity
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Sexual orientation
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Globalization
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Politics and social movements
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The body
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Education
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Family
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Sociological Inquiries
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Role, function, purpose
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Functionalist
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Inequality, power, who benefits
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Conflict
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Meaning, construction of meaning
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Symbolic interactionist
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Focuses on interrogating the taken-for-granted and oft-naturalized
category of gender
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Feminist
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Sociological Lenses
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General in the particular
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Sociological perspective
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Lecture 2.11: Commit Sociology
April 5, 2017
12:00 PM
LECTURE Page 84
Document Summary
Focuses on interrogating the taken-for-granted and oft-naturalized category of gender. Society acts differently towards various categories of people. Life of an individual and history of society cannot be understood separately. Trust - not in constant fear of strangers. Common sense is invaluable to day to day. Every era has its own aspirations, values, and standards. Our realities have many different layers of meaning to them. The world is no longer taken for granted. When the past of knowledge or practices has been erased or forgotten - they appear natural. Reification - process by which ways of talking or thinking are made to appear real. Focus on how knowledge, truth comes to be. Process of people becoming particular types of subjects. Study of intersections between different types of oppression and discrimination. Occupying the dominant (i. e. desirable) and highest status position within various social locations. Scientific accounts are not immune to the findings of sociology.
