SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Micro Focus International, Social Forces

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Sociology - A&S
• Course: SOC 110
• Professor: Freeman Amanda

Document Summary

Study of social relationships and social institutions and how they impact behavior, culture, and society. Purpose: how human action and consciousness both shape and are shaped by surrounding cultural and social forces/structures. Social structure (patterns in relationships that underlie everyday life) Idea or practice that a group of people agree exists, maintained over a period of time because people believe it to be true. Socialization: learned norms and values that allow us to interact appropriately in society. This is most intense during childhood then continues throughout whole life. Krueger & dale"s study shows that individual motivation matters. (ivy league vs. public school) Outcomes usually are a mix between social forces and individual choices. Enables us to grasp history, biography, and the relationship between them. An individual can only understand their own experience by locating themselves within a time period, location, family, etc. Designs that show small and large patterns intersecting.