SOC 103 Midterm: SOC 103 MIDTERM Notes.pdf
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What is society: society as a stucture, relacons of power: A group of people who set rules and follow them. Although membership is always changing society is a structure that remains the same. Society- structure of the social world. Culture- society"s contents = sociocultural system. Complex ways humans live in social groups. Society is an abstract concept should not be personi ed. Individuals should change they way others act. Relacons of power where people interact daily. (experiencally tangible: micro- sociology is ahuned to proximal relacons of power. Assercons about power are complicated by people being in mulcple relacons of power simultaneously. The ability to go beyond the personal issues we all experience and connect them to broader social structures. Overview: marxist ways of thinking about socieces and historical changes, foraging and neolithic socieces, feudal relacons (western, capitalist relacons (western / global) Dialectics internal stresses relacons of dependence: overarching idea: change is the result of, 1.
