SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Symbolic Interactionism, False Consciousness, Social Actions
2 Jul 2016
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: a view of society based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we live. Personal troubles: personal challenges that require individual soluitons. Social issues: challenges caused by larger social factors that require collective solutions. Quality of mind: mills"s term for the ability to view personal circumstance within a social context. Sociological imagination: c. w mills"s term for the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces influence individual lives. Cheerful robots: people who are unwilling or unable to see the social world as it truly exists. Agency: the assumption that individuals have the ability to alter their socially constructed lives. Structure: the network of relatively stable opportunities and constraints influencing individual behaviours. Patriarchy: a system where men control the political and economic resources of society. Socioeconomic status (ses): a combination of variables (education, income, etc. ) used to rank people into a hierarchical structure.
