SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Forces
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Tuesday 10 am to 12 pm in 454 barrows hall ( office hours are on a drop-in basis) 1 required text and one required reader ( krishna copy on telegraph ave and parker. 3 - final project (40%) - research proposal. 4 - i clicker participation discussion posts (10%) Book review (see list at the end of the syllabus) Review one of the videos suggested in the unit modules ( 1 point per review, may be repeated) Sociology: study of society through the examination of: Power relations as evidenced in the study of institutions and organizations. Shared cultural and ideological assumptions about how society should be. Sociology attempts to answer a one basic underlying question: what is a good society. In order to clarify ideas about good societies, sociologists ask. Sociologists consider the relationships between social forces and individual agency. Individual behavior takes place within socially created contexts. These contexts give people different degrees of power.
