SOCL 2001 : SOCL Exam 1 Cheat Sheet
Document Summary
Sociological perspective/imagination: way to recognize patterns in social events & see personal experiences in light of patterns: sterling: racial, media coverage; k/a trigger event for cop shootings. Katrina/japan earthquake: elderly & poor impacted most; men worse than women bc women talk; women feared crime; blacks worse off; n. o. had less blacks, more hisp. & whites; crime upped; ppl had no where to go; japan similar sitch; religion helped in n. o. but not japan. Sociology: study of social relationships, institutions, & society; use #"s, person- person interaction; concerned w all aspects of social world. Macro: study broad social categories, institutions, & socl systems; war, unemploy & divorce rates. Micro: how individs behave in social situations; veteran, unemployed worker, divorcee. Economics: how goods, services, $ are produced, consumed, distributed w/i society (exchange th) Anthro: deals w social & physical aspects of primitive & contemporary cultures. Psych: mental process & individ behavior (symbolic interactionism)
