SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, Perforin

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ideology, religion, fashion, government etc all affect our actions. No matter how personal we think our experiences are, many of them can be seen as products. Subcultures, main cultures, i. e. teenagers are subcultures, counter culture (thieves, criminals, weed smokers ) Subcultures=cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society"s population. Society is the product of the everyday interactions of individuals. People try to manage how people perceive them. Humans have the power to transform social reality. People perform roles as defined by previous institutions. Human being are not created equal and everyone gets what he/she deserves. Social-conflict theory (aka economic determinism): inequality, exploitation, competition. Social instability turns into change, which is good! Only the powerful benefit from current social arrangement. Instability and inequality are caused by humans themselves: global inequality due to culture and technological factors, protestant work ethic wasps, north american amish tradition. Rostow"s stages of modernization: traditional stage, take-off stageprotestantism, technological maturity.