[SOC-R 100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (32 pages long!)
1 Dec 2016
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Sociology provides theory and methods for examining how social factors influence individual and group behavior. The sociological imagination : the ability to connect an individual life to its broader social context. How things have changed overtime: grand theories , tries to offer an explanation to everything, middle range theories , tries to understand everything, these theories provide a lens for understanding social life, soc-r100 groups and social networks. Social groups: size, individuals, organizations, countries, group of two, dyads- mutually dependent, group of three, triads- group holds individual power. It"s not what you know, it"s who you know : connections that we make, gain more power, they put you in the right situation, what you know isn"t the only thing that matters. Two main concepts: nodes, individuals, ties, relationships, strong or weak. Paradox: something that doesn"t seem like its right but it is, the strength of weak ties, weak ties provide you with new information.
