SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Forces
21 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Norms: society"s expectations for how we are supposed to act, think and look. Normative: behaviours, appearances, and thoughts that correspond to society"s norms. Micro level: the level of individual experience and choices. Macro level: the level of broader social forces. Life chances: the opportunities an individual has in life, based on various factors including stratification, inequality, race, ethnicity, and gender. Agency: people"s capacity to make choices, which then have an impact on other people and on the society in which they live. Sociology: the systematic study of society, using the sociological imagination. Sociological imagination- the ability to perceive the interconnections between individual experiences and larger sociocultural forces. Empirical methods- data collection that produces verifiable finding and is carried out using systematic procedure. Theory: a set of proposition intended to explain a fact or a phenomenon.
