[SOCY 100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (169 pages long)
6 Feb 2017
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Socy100: chapter 1 (sociology in the global age) Examples of historical and contemporary sociology concerns: industrial revolution- industry, state, and family (iron workers, post-industrial age- factory to office (physicians, information age- technology and society (uber, aribnb) Consumption: process by which people obtain and utilize goods/services, aspects of consumption become cultural phenomenon (instagram, dating apps, mcdonaldization of society. Principles of fast-food restaurants come to dominate sectors of society. Efficiency, calculability (quantity over quality), predictability (identical experience), control (tech controls the workers), irrationally of rationality (dehumanization, high turnover) Technology: interplay of machines, tools, skills, and procedures used to accomplish tasks, impacts the nature of consumption (amazon drones) The social construct of reality: social structures. Enduring and regular social arrangements based on persistent patterns of interaction and social relationships (the family) Social structures are external to the individual and can (cid:272)onstrain or ena(cid:271)le individual (cid:271)ehavior (cid:894)(cid:862) o(cid:272)ial fa(cid:272)ts(cid:863)(cid:895: social processes.
