CAS SO 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Small Business, Schizophrenia, Opiate

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Week one: who we are and why we are here. Tues sept 6: the sociology of bu: malcolm gladwell, 2005. Selection effect vs. treatment effect o to begin with there elite. Selection the people going to elite schools are elite. Treatment the elite schools make the people going. Thurs sept 8: the sociological imagination: c. wright mills, 1959. If we can"t connect then we feel sense of unease. Sociologies try to connect the personal and the public o issues of structure (individual vs. mass) to see a larger social construct/outward force that causes the issue. Can identify something as a social construction by: does it. Study of human society people to people interactions. Socially produced beliefs, ideas, ways of organizing the o o o o o world. Social units in societies that direct organized social activities. o. Provide rules, roles, and relationships set up to meet human needs and direct human behavior.