SOCI201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)

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The interplay of agency and structure: the individual in social institutions. Developing the sociological imagination: the general in the particular -private troubles and public issues: student loans. What is society: it is a group condition repeated in the individual because it is imposed on him. Social location-how identities like gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age, intersect, and structure your life. Racial disparities: the typical black household has just 6% of the wealth of the typical white household. Durkheim said a group condition repeated in the individual because it is imposed on him. It is to be found in each part because it exists in the whole rather than in the whole because it exists in the parts . Changes of support of marijuana do not happen at the individual level (as said in reefer normal) Do individuals matter: yes but in the sense that they live out the social positions available to them in groups.