SOC 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nacirema, Free Market
24 May 2018
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CHAPTER 1 NOTES
The Fremont Fair
- Neighborhood street festival
- Creative expression with art booths/bands/shops/etc
- Public displays of nudity (on bikes)
RULES of Fremont Solstice Parade
1) No written or printed worlds or logos
2) No animals
3) No motorized vehicles
4) No weapons or fire
THESE ARE ALL CELEBRATED
Vs
Flasher in San Diego County
- Help on 50,000 bail
THIS IS VILIFIED
Conceptions of Deviance
1) Objectively given or positivist
a) Normative conception - general set of norms of behavior, conduct, and conditions
which all people can agree
2) Subjectively problematic
a) Relativist conception - based on interactions with those in society
NORMS
- Rules of behavior
1) Folkways - no uproar if violated
2) Mores - bad traits
3) Laws - bad things that are controversial
STEREOTYPING
- Groups who learn from others
CRITICAL DEFINITION
- Society creates what is good and bad for the white male worl
NACIREMA
- Believes in magic (human body is ugly and deviant
- America spelled backwards
*SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
- Ability to see link between our personal lives and experiences and out social world
-Salad Bar example
...you choose what to get, but also it depends on what is give -
sometimes you can be daring
*SCIENTIFIC METHOD
- Analyze→ interpret → concludes for Hypothesis
- Research questions, collect data
Document Summary
Rules of fremont solstice parade: no written or printed worlds or logos, no animals, no motorized vehicles, no weapons or fire. Vs: normative conception - general set of norms of behavior, conduct, and conditions, relativist conception - based on interactions with those in society. Conceptions of deviance: objectively given or positivist which all people can agree, subjectively problematic. Rules of behavior: folkways - no uproar if violated, mores - bad traits, laws - bad things that are controversial. Society creates what is good and bad for the white male worl. Believes in magic (human body is ugly and deviant. Ability to see link between our personal lives and experiences and out social world. Salad bar example you choose what to get, but also it depends on what is give - sometimes you can be daring. Deeper thoughts behind why people do bad things. Unwritten actions taken by the city, state, or gov.
