SOC 1101 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Sociology, Symbolic Interactionism

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SOC 1101
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Frank is trying to tell us that
"Posting lecture notes makes us weak"/makes you lazy;
Makes things less serious;
Limits creative ideas - taking notes is the spring board of your education
It limits your critical thinking/It helps you understand your learning when you write it
down
o The answers
1. Students should learn how to interpret lecture notes;
2. Students need to learn how to think for themselves;
3. The distribution of notes on a website is a disincentive for attending class
Understanding sociological imagination (think of it like an onion - peel it back)
A sociological imagination is the capacity to think systematically about how things we
experience as personal problems are really social issues that are widely shared by others
living in similar time and social location as us.
The levels include:
o Global community
o Society
o National organizations, institutions, and ethnic subcultures
o Local organizations and community
o Me (and my inner circle)
What is Sociology?
Sociology is the study of the diverse contexts within which individuals' lives unfold and
the social world is created. The social worlds humans create have two key components:
social interaction and social structure.
o Social interaction refers to the way people act together, including how they
modify and alter their behaviour in response to the presence of others. It's
governed by a set of norms, which are the basic rules of society that help us
know what is and what's not appropriate to do in any situation.
o Social structure describes the many diverse ways in which the rules and norms of
everyday life become enduring patterns that shape and govern social
interactions. Social structures lies in the background of every social interaction. It
includes everything from enduring customs and traditions to formal laws and
regulations that governments establish.
Two critical components of social structure that provide essential
frameworks for almost everything we do in our daily lives:
Complex set of roles and social hierarches - a set of important and
enduring social positions that often grant some individuals and
groups higher status and more power than others.
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The norms and institutions of society - institutions refer to
longstanding and important practices, as well as the organizations
that regulate those practices.
Comparing the social sciences
o All study aspects of human behaviour and social life, but each has a different
focus:
Cultural anthropology: claim expertise in the practices of diverse cultures
and how they vary across time and place. The culture or way of life of a
society
Psychology: interested in understanding individual behaviour and mental
processes;
Political science: primarily concerned with topics that involve government
systems and power (the policies they produce);
Economics: mainly concerned with individuals' economic behaviour
(microeconomics) and the performance of the national (or global)
economy (macroeconomics). economic conditions and how people
organize, produce, and distribute goods - we focus on why people buy
certain things.
Sociology: sociologists claim scientific expertise over those parts of life
we call the "social" and in topics with social significance. For example:
human interaction, group, and social structure.
Gender, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status for social
structure
The systematic study of human groups and their interactions (that separate them from
journalists)
o Sociological perspective (we stand on the shoulder's of Giants)
The unique way in which sociologists see our world and can dissect the
dynamic relationships between individuals the larger social network in
which we all live.
Charles Wright Mills
The sociological imagination
o Developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger
social forces
Personal troubles result from individual challenges;
Social issues are caused by larger social factors.
o He was drawing attention to social issues to police brutality by taking a knee
during the national anthem. It was other people who noticed.
The "trick" is in understanding how these personal troubles may indeed be due to larger
social issues;
Quality of mind refers to one's ability to look beyond personal circumstance and into
social context.
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