[SOC 2010] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (26 pages long!)

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC-2010
• Professor: Shannon Mc Donough

Document Summary

Sociology the systematic study of society and social interaction , relationship between individuals and society. Sociology can help to: understand ourselves and our social world, understand how society shapes us and vice versa, promote understanding and tolerance, make the familiar, strange - paradox. Relative deprivation humans compare themselves to the people around them, constant competition with each other. Sociological imagination allows us to: see the relationship between the individual and society (how society shapes the individual, discover the general in the specific , connect personal troubles and public issues. Institutions can be societal patterns of behavior around certain purposes/functions. Can also be general patterns of behavior that come from societal conditions these can change over time. Institutions don"t constrain options people choose preferences based on options created by institutions that are socially acceptable to fulfill needs. Historical, cultural, and social conditions shape the organization of institutions.