SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Social Survey, Student Debt, Tomboy

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Perez Victor

Document Summary

Previous week"s notes (also review notes catherine shared) What you are comes from an external source: society. Gender patterns: gender and choice of college major reveals how your social position determines much of what you do. It is to be found in each part because it exists in the whole, rather than the whole because it exists in the parts. : he called social patterns social facts . The suicide belt: 9 states out in the midwest that have the highest suicide rates in the u. s, 60-80% higher than the rest of the country, (listen to this clip again before exam!!) The general social survey says that men and women have similar education outcomes. When looking at number of degrees earned women earn a higher percentage of bachelor"s degrees- women are a greater part of higher education (they are catching up)