SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology 2001 Lecture 1
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Social network is a relationship between actors with other actors/ not facebook. Main themes for extra credit: education, learning, testing, organizations. Inequality: technology, occupy wall street & presidential election, social networks" & social media. Jindal"s education proposals: vouchers for low income students to go to private schools, teacher tenure , are high school teachers like professors, students failing by standards that are applied to them. Academically adrift: new study by arum & roksa, 2300 students followed for 4 years, 24 colleges, exams (beg; mid; end, punchline: college students aren"t learning anything. Authors view: students are slackers, professors are researchers. Important sociological concepts: status a socially defined position or trait, beauty/ attractiveness is a general staus like race or gender, conferring advantages or disadvantages. Increased expectations for performance: unaffected by political/legal factors or social movements, different factors for men & women, not sexual , function accounts (=stories, recruitment @ networks, social structure, retrospective reconstruction.
