SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Educational Testing Service, Public Sociology, Harriet Martineau
17 Sep 2013
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Sociology is the study of human society, like social life, human behavior, and interactions between individuals, and interactions between societies or groups. We are a product of our social location, aka where we are located in society (like job, race, gender, age) -- context matters: hollywood often employs the sociological imagination as a plot device fish out of water. Sociology is like making the familiar strange: ask why we got to college, asking ourselves what we take to be natural that isn"t -- this allows us to see the complexity in life. Social institution = a group of social positions connected by social relations, performing a social role: think of college it fills lots of roles and links to other societal institutions. Ex: it decides what legitimate education is, segregates by age, it is a brand, and is also a set of stories told within a certain social network.
