SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Substance Abuse, Homeless Shelter, Begging
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But at the same time they pull us apart and divide us. How race, class, gender help us view and understand the world. Commonly discussed in intro to sociology classes. Is about: think about our personal experience in relation to broader society. Debate - careful gathering of evidence, intellectual dialogue leads to some objective truth. Come up with useful, systematic, and convincing explanations for human behavior. What extent do people actively make choices -- human agency. And contrasting with the constraint dynamics -- how much of our actions are limited by constraint. We are less accustomed and less well-verse in looking at societal constraints. Liebow did fieldwork to analyze unemployed black men in 1960s in washington dc. Let"s apply this notion of choice/constraint to another specific case . Imagine a world where it is illegal to sit down. Imagine a world where there is no safe place to sleep or store belongings.
