SOC 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vulva

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 010
• Professor: Jennifer Simmers

Document Summary

Sociological imagination- the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and social influences. Views society as a system of codependent parts that work together to ensure survival. Regards society as a social system with structures. Dysfunctions (negative outcomes; car-wise- paying for gas etc. ) negatively impact society. Includes manifest (crystal clear reason/view; point a-b) and latent functions (status symbol, etc. Ignored social change and the inequality maintained by powerful people. Examines how and why groups disagree, struggle over power, and compete for scarce resources. Explains how societies create and cope with disagreements. Karl marx predicted that conflict would result from widespread economic inequality. Ensures that the haves over power the have-nots in society. Explain the social, economic, and political position of women in society. Vulva scent- creates a sense of the men or society in general constantly sexualizing a woman by their scent. It is (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) do(cid:374)"t go around trying to bottle the scent of men.