SOC 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dominant Culture, Symbolic Interactionism, Shared Experience

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 505
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Social activism and athletes: the past and the present. We might engage in passive forms of sexism, racism even though our intent might not be malicious (sociological imagination). Randomly selected at the airport is really specifically chosen people (bigotry) Slide 2: socialization: the process where we learn the cultural characteristics that come to define us, this permits us to be connected in social relationships, enables us to make sense of the world. Slide 3: ideology: defined as: a group of ideas made normal and natural by dominant culture, dominant culture: those in power, for example, the mainstream, hollywood, capitalism, Ideologies (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:374)atural e(cid:374)ough to the poi(cid:374)t of i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)ility, a presu(cid:373)e (cid:862)just the (cid:449)ay it is(cid:863) i. e. hockey is ca(cid:374)ada"s ga(cid:373)e. It can take shape through politics, gender, race, globalization etc. Slide 5: connecting sports to society: the sociology of sport is the study of the relationship between sport and society.