SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erving Goffman, Theory Of Relativity, Nonverbal Communication
28 Jun 2018
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Topic 1 part 1
- Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups
- Focuses primarily on the influence of social relationships on people’s attitudes and
behavior and on how societies are established and change
- Study of different groups of people and differences between them
- Big element in some schools of sociology is activism
- Conflict in society pushes change
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Cancer paradox: instead of spending money on reducing cancer, more money is going into
curing it, only 5% of donations are going to preventing cancer
Social construction of knowledge: we gain knowledge from our surroundings
Social imagination: our own problems are public problems, if 1% is unemployed it is a personal
problem but if 25% is unemployed it’s a society problems and what is causing this
unemployment, education?
Tupac: found out his personal problems are bigger problems as more people are experiencing it
Durkheim: concerned with how suicide rates relate country to country, rates of suicide higher in
times of peace than in times of war, suicide rights will rise or fall in conjunction with power
right
Suicide in sociology: personal issue why did specific person commit suicide but societal issue
what group commits suicide more, what factors cause people to commit suicide (sociological
imagination)
Dorothy smith: protestants commit more suicide, but societies hide suicide, ideas of suicide are
socially constructed
5 schools of sociology
Functionalist: everything in society meets needs of people, if one need is removed society will
collapse. Prison creates a function for prison guards but is dysfunctional, certain institutions
have their own goals, school creates education, someone who commits crime may be
dysfunction of society but also serve a function in society
Conflict: society is made up of groups in constant conflict
Post modern
Feminist
Interactionist
Marx: concerned with social classes and labor rights in an emerging industrial/capitalist world
Socialization: process where people learn the values of society and different institutions
institutionalize you
Twin studies: way people are brought apart and society around them affects the way their
behavior, twins characteristics stayed the same when they were reared apart but
Twins: nature vs nurture, one is not dominant over another as twins had similar and different
characteristics
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