SO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Bernard Shaw, Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Interactionism
2 Oct 2017
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Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular. Shows us factors like age, schooling, race, ethnicity, sex and social class guide our selection of a partner. Society shapes what we think and do. Society is the main cause of poverty and other social problems. Global perspective: the study of larger world and our societies place in it. Global awareness: a logical extension of the sociological perspective. High-income countries: nations with the highest overall standards of living. Middle-income countries: nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole. Low-income countries: nations with a low standard of living in which people are poor. Where we live shapes the lives we lead. Many social problems that we face in the us are far more serious elsewhere. Thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves. Theological church in the middle ages (god&king) Metaphysical enlightenment and ideas of locke, hobbes, and rousseau.
