[SOC 102] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 33 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Pace University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 102
• Professor: Aygenc Akman

Document Summary

In many ways it is a terrible lesson; in many ways a magnificent one. c. mills. The things we choose to wear reflects: identity, social class, worldview, status, integration into society"s demands, resistance to society"s demands, group solidarity, desires. To understand social & historical meaning of individual society: look at meanings, classify & declassify, think the opposite, compare. Sociology is the study of social structures & how social structures influence human behavior & social outcomes (such as crime, deviance, poverty & exclusion) Sociology asks how is social order possible? : interests, value, norms, beliefs, social structures, institutions, organizations. Norms: rules of conduct that specify appropriate behavior in a given range of special situations; govern our actions & have consequences. Values: ideals held by individuals or groups about what is desirable, good or bad, proper or improper, etc. Any relatively stable pattern of relationship between ppl. Are not fixed, changing & are context bounded.