SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnography, Antonio Gramsci, Sampling Bias

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Mike Holland

Document Summary

Not everything that we believe is common sense is actually true: common sense is an illusion; our social world seems more orderly. Examples of common sense statements: money is the measure of success, if you work hard you will be rewarded, you can be anything you want to be or only the sky is the limit. Since its inception, sociology had to confront the common sense argumentnot every sociological finding is ground-breaking: many findings may be common sense in nature. To understand social behaviour, sociologists use a sociological imagination : awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society. 1: key element: view our own society as an outsider would, not from personal experiences and cultural biases, personal biographies are shaped by historical period in which we live. Evolution of fashion, technology, etc. , shape who we are, our behaviour, and our values.