SOC100H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hyperreality, Hidden Curriculum, Operationalization
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Systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. Exp) ppl on welfare live off the system inaccurate myth ppl on welfare don"t actually want to be on welfare and get off as soon as they can. Sociology has no opinions, they are all facts; Seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Exp)male and female holding hands; why is the male hand on top and female underneath?-->asking questions about everything things, that later become strange. C. wright mills definition: a sociological vision; a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Interconnection between life of an individual and the history of society. Exp) when we make the decision to buy a shirt, it"s not our sole decision, it"s actually an influence by social structures: global- beyond macro (exp. International communications, mass travel: macro-large structural concepts anything that is outside micro exp.
