SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Norm (Social), Breaching Experiment
4.13.18
- What does it mean to think sociologically?
- Overarching question of the entire course
- Peter Berger Quote
- A person who intensively, endlessly, shamelessly interested in our world
- Natural habitat: wherever it is where human beings come together
- The sociological eye/ point of view
- Distinctive intellectual activity
- Looking at the world with a sociological eye
- Sociology of pretty much everything, no matter where you are or what it is
- Practically nothing you can’t train your sociological eye to pay attention to
- Forces you to take the things you usually take for granted and question
them
- Not an easy task
- Requires us to be prepared to make familiar settings unfamiliar
- Scrutinize things that seem natural/ inevitable
- The sociological perspective
- Seeing the world with a sociological eye/ seeing the world a bit differently
- Sociological influences of natural behavior
- The individual and their relationship to society
- Individuals affect society and are in turn affected by society
- Primary concern of thinking sociologically
- Norms
- Good way to get traction on individual/ society dynamic
- Standard that governs our daily conduct
- Standards we are expected to conform to whether we actually do or not
- Prescriptions on what we ought to think and feel in a given situation
- Deeply internalized through processes of socialization
- Norms are learned through the course of life
- Constitute our social structure
- Fundamental unit of analysis when thinking sociologically
- Help explain the ways we are simultaneously in society and how society is within
us
- Breaking the norm
- Rupturing the social order
- Violate unwritten rule for how people ought to behave in a given circumstance
- Sanctions
- Keeping people in line/ preserving social order
- Mechanisms of social control that help reinforce societal standards of
conduct, appearance, etc.
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Document Summary
A person who intensively, endlessly, shamelessly interested in our world. Natural habitat: wherever it is where human beings come together. Looking at the world with a sociological eye. Sociology of pretty much everything, no matter where you are or what it is. Practically nothing you can"t train your sociological eye to pay attention to. Forces you to take the things you usually take for granted and question them. Requires us to be prepared to make familiar settings unfamiliar. Seeing the world with a sociological eye/ seeing the world a bit differently. The individual and their relationship to society. Individuals affect society and are in turn affected by society. Good way to get traction on individual/ society dynamic. Standards we are expected to conform to whether we actually do or not. Prescriptions on what we ought to think and feel in a given situation. Norms are learned through the course of life. Fundamental unit of analysis when thinking sociologically.
