SOCI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Teleology, Pure Sociology, Anthropocentrism

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1101
• Professor: Mark Cooney

Document Summary

Personal history and anguish is available to any staff member. Staff are a credible witness, patients are not: reactions were intense, pseduopatient found themselves caught up in fighting the process of depersonalization. Female status and premarital sexual codes: (letter to the editor) Differences in the strictness of premarital sex codes and the observance of rigid standards of sexual morality are seen as a normative phenomenon (childhood socialization). Rigidity of premarital sexual codes varies with female dominance in the determination of family status. Increasing freedom in socialization patterns among parents of white children, leading to less rigid (cid:374)or(cid:373)s a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g whites, a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g adoptio(cid:374) of (cid:862)(cid:373)iddle-(cid:272)lass sta(cid:374)dards(cid:863) (cid:271)y negros, leadi(cid:374)g to (cid:373)ore rigid norms among negros. Pure sociology: new sociological theory that excludes several features of virtually all other explanations of human behavior: Teleology: concern with human action as a means to an end.