SOCI 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Social Integration, Meritocracy
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Sociology: the systematic study? of human society, interactions and relationships. Society: interactions are important, in a specific geographic location. He found it was different in countries (rates of suicide) Its not just one person, things within society make more prone: social integration. Egoistic /altruistic (too much: social regulation. The sociological imagination (c. wright mills: current society affected by history. Personal troubles vs. public issues: something affecting individual (lazy) but if big percent unemployed its another underlying issue (economic) Culture set of beliefs, knowledge, ideologies that shapes how we interact with society (within a group: dominant. Capitalism and consumerism: subculture, counter culture. Structural functionalism (durkheim: the organ analogy, within society there are different roles that together make society as a whole. Conflict theory (marx: power struggle within people in our society. Symbolic interactionism (blumer, cooley: how we socialize in our society.