01:920:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Conflict Theory
14 Dec 2015
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How is the division of labor explained by rational choice theory, conflict theory, and. Sex ration is an example of social structure. Example of social structure: population density, age ratio, race, demographics, status. Religious and political views are part of culture. Samll elemetns that coem ptogethe and work together to produce soemthing that works. Don"t take for granted what you see everyday, and familiarize yourself with the. Exotic so that when you see something culturally shocking, it isn"t anymore. Sociologist have to make what they think they know, to something exotic, something they don"t know. Finding a way to change exotic culture into something that we do know. To understand and truly see somehthing with new eyes, you need to exotisize it and understand it as somehting new and ask why. To understand a new culture something exotic, you have to compare it to what you already know translate it into your own terms what you are already familiar with.
