SOC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas Piketty, White Privilege, High Culture
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Social interactions, taking into account personal backgrounds: race, gender, age. Societal norms: how much we are influenced by what is expected vs. what we want o. It helps us see how social forces affect our everyday lives: different from physical and emotional forces (famine, droughts, wars, success, power, marriage, sexual assault) are o o. Sociology is the seinfeld of the scientific world (like the show seinfeld the show about nothing) o. Empirical side: basic sociology, applied sociology, microsociology, macrosociology. Yorick"s dilemma (character from hamlet we all end up dying anyway: life is finite, how will you live your life, live life to its fullest, micro level, macro level. Social stratification: the existence of structures inequalities between groups in society in terms of their access to material and symbolic rewards o o. Society is divided vertically, into different layers and levels.