SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Role, Symbolic Interactionism, Microaggression Theory
11 Sep 2017
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Looking at broader things: groups of people. Def: the systematic, skeptical, and critical study of the social . But we can"t study populations (b/c they"re huge) What is the correct way of interacting with one another. Sociology will say that the way people act is all due to society and culture. Ex) gender might be different in different cultures. Master statuses: social-economic status, sex and gender, race and ethnicity, age, and sexuality. These groups are what defines people and how they"re seen in society. Sociology is comparative, not looking at a case study (anthropology) Master statuses can cause roadblocks or easy achievement. Thinking that one culture is better than another culture. You usually think your own culture is best because you grew up in that culture and shun other cultures because they"re different. Sociologists are influenced by their own contexts. Organs have their own specific function in the body. Instead of organs, we have institutions (political and education)
