SY101 Midterm: SY 101 Test 1 Review
SY 101 Test 1 Review October 18th, 2017
Monica Gamboa
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SY 101 Test 1 Review
Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination
Terms
Chapter 1 Terms
Definitions
Identity
The conceptions we and others have about who we are and what groups or
categories we are members of
Industrialization
Growth of factories and larde-scale goods of production
Institution
Longstanding and important practices (marriage, families, and economic markets)
as well as organizations that regulate those practices (gov’t, the legal system, the
military, schools,
Interdisciplinary
Research
An increasingly central part of learning about any topic in sociology or the social
sciences
Norm
Basic rules of society that help us know what is and is not appropriate in a situation
• Handshake
Social Context
Sociology is fundamentally concerned with how individuals participate in, and are
influenced by society. These influences are referred to as the Social Context.
• Immediate family
• Neighbourhood/ community
• Education
• Types of organizations
• Employment
• Country born in
• Period of history
Social Hierarchy
Set of important and enduring social positions that often grant some individuals and
groups higher status and more power than others
•
Social Interaction
The way people act together, including how they alter and modify their behaviour
in response to the presence of others
Social Network
The ties between people, groups, and organizations
Social Structure
The many diverse ways in which the rules and norms of everyday life become
enduring patterns that shape and govern social interaction
Society
A large group of people who live in the same area and participate in common
culture
Sociological
Imagination
The capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal
problems
Sociology
The study of societies and social worlds that individuals inhabit within them
Stereotype
Faulty generalizations about individuals based on what we think we know about the
groups
Urban area
Population of at least 1000 and a population density of 400 people per square
kilometer
Urbanization
The growth of cities
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Notes
We are social beings connected to other people in a variety of different ways
Example: Social Media
We are all part of normally hidden social networks
The example of facebook and other digitial technologies that have emerged exemplifies
another key point
o Socieities are always evolving and changing
o Changes raise new puzzles and challenges for understanding the human
experience
Sociological imagination:
- the capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal
problems
o Example: Student loans, inability to form rewarding romantic relation
- Helps us ask the hard questions & seek answers about the social world we inhabit
- Once we learn to not take stereotypes and common-sense knowledge for granted, we
can begin to ask questions
Social Contexts:
Influence of society on individuals
Examples:
• Immediate family
• Neighbourhood/ community
• Education
• Types of organizations
• Employment
Broader Contexts:
• Country born in
• Period of history born in
Families and Communities
- Racial, ethnic, religious identities
- Basic rules of society
- Exposure of certain networks of people
learning to start questioning
things developing a social imagination
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Social changes made by these social contexts
were immense
Communities
Identities and Groups
Identities that are beneficial = male/man (given more opportunities)
Identities that are harmful = not being the majority
Social Interaction vs. Social Structure
Two Key Components
Social Interaction:
- They way people interact
- How they modify & alter their behaviour based on their presence of others
- Governed by norms!
We censor ourselves because of our concern for social consequences of our actions
Social Structure
- Used to describe the many ways in which the rules/norms of life become enduring
patterns that shape and govern social interactions
- Two Critical Components:
1. Social hierarchies
2. Institutions
The Sociology of Social Sciences
Social work could be srudied with scientific methods from the 1880s and onwards
Settling down of sociology first occurred in Europe (France & Germany)
Father of Sociology = Emilie Durkheim
2 Social contexts that made people interested in the new type of knowledge
1. Industrialization
2. Urbanization
bad
neighbourhood
increased stress
levels (reduce
sleep and school
performance)
Good
neighbourhood
ambitious and
confident
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