RURLSOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personal Development, Rural Sociology, Peer Pressure

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: RURLSOC 1500
• Professor: Joe Donnermeyer

Document Summary

Environmental cues are important- learning to read cues is another way of saying. Society performs two basic functions o our own. o. It frees us up to specialize, that is, to do things we would not be able to do on. It constrains our behavior- called social control and peer pressure. We are not free to do everything we would like! Depends on where you are and at what time. Age, race, faculty a tag, color of car, type of car, bias of the officer, bias of the driver, speed. Can you create new patterns/repeated behavior/social structure? o o o o. A second person is key to movement success. What was deviant becomes what the majority do. Religion started with one person and followed by followers. Sociology is the scientific study of social/patterned/repeated behavior (i. e, social structure and related attitudes or, sociology is the study of people, and how they think and behave in groups) o o.