SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Functional Analysis, Erving Goffman, Participant Observation
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Exam 1 will consist of 60-70 multiple-choice questions. Students are responsible for the course readings (chapters 1-5, mills, berger, goffman, ritzer, chambliss), the powerpoint slides (which sometimes go beyond the text), the films and all online assignments. Note that the terminology below does not include material from the online assignments and films. Social location: our gender, race, social class, religion, and so forth. Sociological imagination: from c. wright mills, the realization that personal troubles are rooted in public issues. Society: a group of people who live within a defined territory who share a culture. Blaming-the-victim approach: the belief that people experiencing difficulties are to blame for these problems. Blaming-the-system: belief that personal difficulties stem from problems in society. Conflict theory: view that society is composed of groups with different interests arising from their placement in the social structure. Class conscious: awareness of one"s placement in the social structure and the interests arising from this placement.
