SOCI1001 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism, Sociology
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Objectives: - to learn about the relationship between individual choices and larger social forces. To learn what distinguishes sociology, sociological thinking and the sociological imagination. Things are not what they seem: individual choices and larger social forces. Reflect our own choices (comfort,expectations) social factors ( gender,age,culture etc. ) Why are you here at university? (family expectations, good job, challenge) social factors (need more education,family support) There is something more than just individual preferences operating here . When you begin to consider the various factors that influenced your personal choices, or the similar decisions reached by others, that is the point at which you are starting to practice sociology s&b, p. 4. Where you end up in life is up to you its isn"t completely up to you (how a sociologist would answer) Individual choice but it can be affected by social barriers or situations.
