SOCI201 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Structural Functionalism, Sociological Perspectives, Social Inequality
12 Oct 2018
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SOCI201
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Fall 2018
SOCIOLOGY
Chapter one
●What is sociology?
●Scientific study of social behavior and human groups
●Focuses on
○Social relationships
○How those relationships influence people's behavior
○How societies develop and change
●Sociological imaginations
○C Wright Mills
■Awareness of the relationship b/n an individual and the wider
society
■Ability you view one's own society as an outsider would
■Allows us to go beyond personal experiences and observations
●Sociology and the social sciences
○science : body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic
observation
■Natural science: study of physical features of nature and the
ways they interact and change
■social science: study of social features of humans and the ways
how interact and change
○Social sciences disciplines all focus on the social behavior of people,
but each has a particular orientation
○Make broad observations
○Study the influence society has on people's attitudes and behaviors
■Seek to understand ways in which people interact and shape
society
■People’s views can change over time due to influence
■Examine social relationships scientifically
■Example
●Global recession the began in 2008
○Marital patterns
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■More people got married and less got
divorced
○Recessions impact on education
●Virginia tech
○Shooting
●Hurricane Katrina
○2005
○Most notable disasters
○disasters illuminate fractures in society
●Sociology and common sense
○Sociologists do not accept something as fact because “everyone
knows it”
○Must be tested and proven
○Nothing is considered common sense
■Each piece of info must be tested, recorded, and analyzed
●Example notion that women tend to be chattier than men
●Example expectation of higher crime rates in
communities on the Texas-Mexico Border
○Table 1-1 Sections of the ASA
●What is Sociological theory?
○Theory: a set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions, or
behaviors
■Effective theories may have both explanatory and predictive
power
●Example : sociologist Emile Durkheim, who studied
suicide, suggested suicides are related to the group life of
a society
■Theories are not final statements about behavior
Module 2 The development of sociology
●Philosophers are religious authorities of ancient and medieval societies made
many observations about human behavior
●Auguste Comte 1798-1857
○Systematic investigation of behavior
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Scientific study of social behavior and human groups. Awareness of the relationship b/n an individual and the wider society. Ability you view one"s own society as an outsider would. Science : body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation. Natural science: study of physical features of nature and the ways they interact and change. Social science: study of social features of humans and the ways how interact and change. Social sciences disciplines all focus on the social behavior of people, but each has a particular orientation. Study the influence society has on people"s attitudes and behaviors. People"s views can change over time due to influence. More people got married and less got divorced. Sociologists do not accept something as fact because everyone knows it . Each piece of info must be tested, recorded, and analyzed. Example notion that women tend to be chattier than men. Example expectation of higher crime rates in communities on the texas-mexico border.
