SOCL 2001 Chapter : Ch 1-3 Exam Cheat Sheet
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Sociology: scientific study of social relationships, social institutions & society. Story starts out mundane & turns into poverty, racism, illegal immigration. Perspective: way to recognize patterns in social events & view personal experiences in light of these patterns. Imagination: vivid awareness of the relationship b/t experience & wider society. Hurricane katrina from a sociological perspective: effected people differently, women adapted better (due to religion) Divorce rate goes down, capital punishment has no effect on homicide rate, crime doesn"t go up. Economics(exchange),anthropology- analyze similarities & differences in society(family, exchange, functionalism, comparative), political science(social order, conflict theory, exchange theory, symbolic internationalism(everything we do has a meaning), social. Called new social science social physics -tried to apply this to society organism/machine, called it social. Talked about society like an then meta physical, then scientific. Ex: professor drops 100 bill says anyone can get it. Father of conflict theory, feminism, and racial movement.
