SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: A Natural Disaster, Mass Media
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How is society possible: through social interaction, cooperating, communicating, sharing, arguing, negotiating, compromising, in uencing, interaction is the heart of society - from communication we know each other, norms, values, rules of society, etc. When people interact, a set of social patterns result. Culture - rules, beliefs, values, products, etc. Social structure - a set of positions (roles) that are lled and enacted in relationships to one another. Social institutions - societies exist over time because people have worked out ways of regulating behavior an interacting. (these three terms are mentioned in s chapter 3, 4, and 5: institutions: These ways of interacting become established and this is where social institutions- family, religious, work, political, educational, etc. Socialize us: help us learn the rules of society. Sociology is a scienti c way of thinking about society and its in uence on human groups: an empirical discipline, with conclusions based on careful and systematic observations (sociological research, c. w.
