SYG2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Forces, Norm (Social), Bourgeoisie
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Lifecourse transition: major change in one"s life: example: going from college to high school. Civil attention: where people do pay attention to someone because it is a social norm to do so: example: in a classroom the students are attentive to the professor. The opposite of this would be civil inattention. This is where we ignore people around us that we don"t know (strangers) because it is polite to do so, according to society. Consolidation of responsibility: pushing the responsibility onto others around us: example: only a few people in class will raise their hands every time a question is asked, this can also be known as the bystander effect. Three fundamental characteristics of sociology: a non-individualistic/structural perspective. Explaining human behavior: humans are not freely acting and choosing individuals, every choice made is influenced by larger social forces. Sociological imagination: the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society, critical imagination.
