[SOC 100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (26 pages long!)
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Sociology: the study of people and groups and their interactions in situations: the systematic study of the relationship between individuals and social worlds that they produce, inhabit, and sometimes change. Today : seeing your own world sociologically. Taken-for-granted understandings: everyone has their own folk theories about social life. Used in daily life to navigate the social world: common sense: something that many people in society assume to be true, the flip : flipping your consciousness; viewing things from a different angle. The sociological flip: a transformation of consciousness. The sociologist does not look at phenomena that nobody else is aware of. But he looks at the same phenomena in a different way (berger 28) The scene that he contemplates is the same human scene that other scientists concern themselves with. But the sociologist"s angle of vision is different : *seeing the strange in the familiar, and the familiar in the strange*
