Textbook Notes for SOC100H5 at University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Look at he some tips for writing an effective essay (the prof wrote it for soc class) Essay must be 7000-1000 words, double spaced, 12 pts time new rom

The picture there are women topless on the beach, this isn"t the wrong, but they ar. People break a norm when they"re facing the wrong direction in the

It"s a mirror, the way we see our self is how other people view us. If we don"t look at interaction, we are ignoring how peoples behaviour are shaped b

Cultures the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real- life pr

Lecture 4: sociological theory (take from the powerpoint "04_soc100_sociological theory", but a lot of detail and examples were added from the lectures

Prevents us from having common sense approach to our social world. Explore and document how our social world is changing and their impacts. What other

Sociology: is the systematic study of human behavior in social context. Mesostructured: patterns of social relation in organization that involve people

Lecture 3: research methods (cnt. ) and sociological theory (taken from the powerpoint "research methods" and "sociological theory", but a lot of detai

Soc100 lecture 19 environment and social movement. Occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change. Co

Soc100 lecture 17 health and medicine. Individual: diet and lifestyle: excessive substance use, poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation. Life lon

Soc100 lecture 18 technology and media. Practical application of scientific principles to improve human life: it helps us control risk. We create our o

Merit and sorting: based on talent and effort, the most talented and most intelligent get ahead. Training: perform essential tasks essential for societ

Stratification: rich vs poor, powerful vs powerless, highly educated vs less educated. Income: money earned over a given period. A welfare state is one

Soc100 lecture 9 crime and deviance (part ii) Prominent escapees: thomas william mccauley, mastermind behind prison break of 14 inmates in 1973, 27 yea

Soc100 lecture 8 crime and deviance (part i) Ambiguity: deviance is a concept that people create a definition for, things that are deviant to some, are

Soc100 lecture 7 interaction: from emotions to institutions. Interconnected organizations are connected to interconnected groups which are connected to

Culture shock is an effect of this: culture is symbolic, culture varies across time and place. Cultural survival kit: components of culture, abstractio

Soc 100 lecture 2 research methods. Ideology vs. social science: ideology is closed, full of contradictions and does not allow tests, social science is

Symbolic interactionism: how people interact on a daily basis, features, focus on interactions between individuals or groups, relationships are constru

Ideas as to how or why things in the social world are connected: not just a guess, a series of testable connections, can be proved wrong if it is a str

Soc 100 lecture 1 introduction to sociology and the sociological imagination. What is sociology: systematic study of human behaviour in a social contex