SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Total Institution, Jaywalking, Ethnocentrism

• School: UMass Boston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 101
• Professor: Mayorga- Gallo

Document Summary

Sociological imagination recognizing links b/w personal lives and experiences and social world. Personal troubles of milieu issues directly affecting individual in their surroundings. 1 person not being able to pay for school. Matters that relate to framework/patterns of society. Ex. unemployment student debt and college tuition increase. Theory - set of statements that aim to explain problems, actions and behaviors. How is theory different than opinion? constructed using scientific facts tested by researchers and experts supported by data. About stability view of society: stable, integrated well. Functions: help keep society stay in balance. Manifest functions - open, stated, conscious functions latent functions - unconscious or unintended functions. Anomie: loss of direction in society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective. The division of labor in society social integration: degree to which people are tied to social group. Human behavior can"t be understood in terms of individuals. We should examine social forces that affect people"s lives.