SOCI 1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
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Soci 1 lecture 2 basic concepts. Institution: social practices repeated and supported by norms: give order to society, organized, established, can be key parts of social order and formal structure, ex: schools, provide identities/roles, ex: schools have teachers and students. Institutionalization: process through which some practices becomes taken from g ranted and repeated automatically: voluntary. Culture: culture: learned beliefs, values, ideologies, worldviews, habits, practices, may refer to mental states. Institutions are cultural: ex: values, ideologies, beliefs, actions, ex: widely shared habits, objects, ex: music, food, art, need to have patterns, stability, can affect us in subtle ways, can mean practices, rituals, symbols, material things. Identified with national origins, classes: different classes have different aesthetics in their homes. Agency: agency: ability of individuals to act independently, showing free will. Less constrained by institutions, culture, power, more agency we have. Social change: process of growth and development/radical break and revolution in social order, power, institutions, culture.
