SOC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ascribed Status, Social Forces, Achieved Status
23 Apr 2013
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. The unique way in which sociologists see the social world is the sociological perspective: a view based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live in. Personal troubles: personal challenges that require individual solutions. Social issues: challenges caused by larger social factors that require collective solutions. Many personal troubles never become social issues because people fail to equate their own issues with those of the larger social world. Quality of mind: ability to see personal circumstance in a social context. Sociological imagination: ability to see how dynamic social forces influence individual lives. Cheerful robots: individuals who fail to see the social world for what it truly is. Sociological peter berger defines sociological perspective as: seeing the general in that particular, and the strange in the familiar. General in the particular: taking an individual incident and seeing the general or larger features involved.
