SOCI 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Opiate, Ethnography, Culture Shock

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Reading: body ritual among the neuroma (horace miner) Reading: the sociological imagination (c. wright mills) Society: largest-scale human group that shares a common geographic territory and common institutions. Based on and requires social interactions b/w its members. Basis of continued co-operation b/w members of society. Enable members to monitor and regulate each other. Culture: system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices,values, and materials. Shapes interactions b/w members of a society by shaping: Dominant culture: able to impose its values, beliefs, and behaviours on a given society because of its political and economic power. Counter culture: group that rejects certain elements of the dominant culture (e. g; anti- consumerist groups) Subcultures: culture within a broader mainstream culture w/ its own separate values, practices, and beliefs. Elite (high) culture: culture of society"s elite. Popular (low) culture: culture of the majority. Inequality: gap b/w advantaged and disadvantaged in society.