SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Question about sociology: why is religion still important if it causes so many. Textbook the study of human groups: their origin, development, structure, funcion, and signiicance for social life. David emile the study of the group is more powerful in understanding human behavior than either psychology or biology. What groups do you contribute your success to? i. e. north farmington, family, friends. The groups you belong to are powerful in your success. Ex: consider shooings of black civilians by white police oicers. Police culture (shared ideas and behaviors of a professional group): Ideal types (max weber): groups whose members share characterisics and can be studied as a single unit. Polsters, adverisers: the assumpion that group membership is powerful in determining individual behavior. The power that groups have to afect their members" thoughts, behaviors, and lives. The power that groups exercise over one another.
