SOCL 2001 Lecture : Lecture 2
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Important sociology concepts: status, function, accounts (=stories) group of people is narrowed down and winds up in a particular place, recruitment & networks recrutiment: the process by which a large, evaluation ( judgment , social structure. ^(not sure what this is he just said it) ***knowing diffs statuses is different than assigning the value. People and places: evacuation decisions, risk communication, the role of government. Our hurricanes: katrina & rita, aug. 29/ sept 2005, gustav & ike, sept. 1, 2008 & one week later. The time out experience: church/ mardi gras/ christmas. I argue that the hurricane experience is special ( sacred ) in the same way: not every day life, something different, set apart from normal, something special, time set apart from the normal everyday life. Two quotations: the academic, the everyday, i was surprised it wasn"t as worse as it was, sw louisiana man. Macro (larger scope of communication) & micro (intrapersonal communication)
