SOC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Virtual Community, Proxemics, Social Forces
23 Oct 2015
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Paragraph 1: culture; general way of life which include norms, customs, beliefs, and language. Human society; system of social interaction which includes culture and social organization. Social interaction; the way two people (or more) behave around each other and create a social bond. Paragraph 2: sui generis; society is more than just the sum of its parts (literal latin meaning. A thing in itself, of its own particular kind ) Paragraph 3: humans make up the society through their behavior and interactions that form patterns which make society take on a life of its own. Society is much more than the sum of the individuals in it . Paragraph 4: its important for sociologists to picture the society as a whole. However, it is also important to recognize how individual parts relate. Macro-analysis; sociological approach that takes the broadest view of society by studying. Microanalysis; focus on the smallest, most immediately visible parts of social life (ex:
