SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Medicalization, Media Bias, Tim Wise

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Professor Hatton

Document Summary

Social structures and social institutions [definitions] [what are the institutions?] Social framework that directs and limits our behavior. Social location: culture, social class, social status, roles, groups, social institutions. Social location offers both opportunities and limitations: where one stands in a society is a very important aspect in being afforded certain options others do not have. Macrosociology [functionalism, conflict theory] vs. microsociology [symbolic interactionism: macrosociology, functionalists and conflict theorists focus on the actions of larger entitites and how they affect the individual. In conflict theory bourgeois vs. proletariat and how they interact. In functionalism how these things work together to form a functioning society: focuses on social structures, microsociology, focuses on social interactions between people, primary focus of symbolic interactions the why and what of interactions between people mean. Quiet rage prison study showed that prisoners and guards took on the persona of the part they were playing and acted accordingly. Saints and roughnecks two groups of high school boys.