SOC 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersectionality, Frantz Fanon, Social Inequality
25 Oct 2017
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The systematic study of society and human interaction. Most of us rely on commonsense knowledge. Involves using different theoretical perspectives to systematically study the social world. Ways > allow us to deconstruct the taken-for-granted ways of thinking. Sociology analyzes why people: sociology examines the social context of behaviour cross culturally and historically. Sociological theory: in a comprehensive manner. predictive, explanatory, understanding. Quality of mind, helps us to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what"s going on in the world. Promises: non fatalistic view of society, an awareness that there are other structures, that the way it is is not the way it has to be. Problem: too much credit to individual choice. fails to test experience. Individual first : individuals choose to act in concert to avoid chaos. How to behave properly in a society (micro) Ensures transmissions of societal values and culture across generations (macro) Bureaucracy: hierarchies to maintain order and eliminate favouritism.
