SOC102H1 Midterm: SOC102 Test 2 Notes
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Anything that upsets clear role expectations and situational norms is socially disruptive. Society as being only as strong as its weakest members. Society is like a living organism made up of interconnected parts that together work as an efficient productive whole. People usually seek to satisfy own goals not goals of society as a whole. Members hold different interests and groups compete against the other to enlarge its share of society"s resources. Whose interests are served by the actions of dominant groups in society and their ideology. Studies the way people experience on an everyday basis. Study the ways social issues are brought to public attention or are submerged from it. Homosexuality is an attraction, physical and emotional, to people of the same sex. Sexual orientation is one"s sexual attraction to people of a specific sex (sexes). Queer is an umbrella term to describe anyone who does not identify as heterosexual.
