SOCI 1002H Study Guide - Final Guide: Food Science, Virginia Sterilization Act Of 1924, Anomie
5 Apr 2016
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Major focuses of sociology: examining past paterns of social development, studying the current strains in intergroup social relaions, formulaing possible future direcions of social change. We can never be totally free of our social world. The music video for thrit shop shows how status symbols can be challenged through pop culture. The images of rioing youth portray a breakdown of social order, change theorists would suggest such images are evidence of social change through challenging of norms and values and reproduce dominant cultural values of white middle class respectability. Biological determinists believe that human behavior is primarily the consequence of inborn biological traits. The latest geneic research seems to show that our genes are not ixed and unchangeable, but rather are themselves afected by their environment, beginning in the womb. Comack argues that racial proiling is not a systemaic part of policing, but the acts of poorly trained police oicers.
