SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Microsociology, Symbolic Interactionism, Conflict Theories
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What is sociology: the study of human society: more of a technique as how to study vs. what sociologists study. Path dependency: idea that tries to explain the use of old products or practices today, despite the release of newer, more efficient products and practices. Trouble: an individual matter or personal experience. Issue: public matter that transcends our environment, has to do with the larger aspects of social life. We try to explain things from such a narrow, individualistic perspective: when we should actually be taking into consideration the bigger picture, finding the root causes of issues in cultural, political, economical, etc. settings. Romero text: romero grew up in domestic family, many of her relatives cleaned houses as did she, later lived with family who had a cleaning lady too- juanita (experiences b/w. Romero begins to reanalyze her experience with domestic service by considering the larger social context of devaluation- specifically domestic workers.
