SOCIOL 2JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brainstorming, Social Change, Cultural Diversity
15 Jan 2019
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Our biological/visible features (anything you can quickly capture relates to life experiences) have social connotations. Sociological imagination our individual experiences are not isolated; linked to structural context. Social construction of reality reality is not biological; reality is subjective and can change. Have meanings because de ned by stereotypes, media. Human beings de ne others using categorization/labels that can be subjective. Ex. age, gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, social class. Gives people different opportunities access to different societal resources (ex. employment, income) Social change become aware of discrimination, educating themselves. Group sense of belonging; can cross boundaries. Impressions display culture and people form impressions. Dividing humanity (how people make sense of a group at the time) A rigid, oversimpli ed belief that is applied to all members of a social group (can be positive or negative) In absence of real information, people tend to resort to stereotypes. Applied to all social groups: gender, class, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation.
