POLS 1000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Top Industrial Managers For Europe, Product Placement, Dont
12 Oct 2018
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POLS 1000
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
Lecture 1 and 4 notes
SOSC
• How do u see ur society if ur in ur society, social s
• How do i see myself personal qs
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What is human nature
What can i know
What to hope for
What should I do
Anderson sociological perspective
Mills the sociological imagination
Look at social order chart
• Reality is socially contruscted
• Culture is a symbolic system that shapes my reality
• Individuation
• Born into a set of social relations
• We experience thru culture
• Society is not result of bio consti otherwise it d be all the same
• Social norms become a factor of control
• Pre-established patterns of conduct norms=rules of approproiate set of beh
• Roles=typified response to a typyifed expectation
• Norms and habits are taken for granted
• Taken for gratned cuz considered as given, self-evident
• What we take for gr. Is socially constr.
• Know it is socially const. cuz of historical contexts
• Institutions are the institutionalization of these values
• Socialized means the social system is put in the individual
• Society is in u and u r in society
• Insititutionalization, socialization, internalization
• Reality is socially const. society human product
• Ideology is a set of ideas that protect the dominant interest in society and
preserves the status quo final ex. qs
• There is no natural position
• U r either in them or challenging them
• Socioolgoy is an imagination is a way of looking at things,
TUTR: 1
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LECTURE 1 READING NOTES
• SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS ARE DIFF FROM COMMON SENSE ONES BECAUSE THEY ARE
MADE TO HELP SOCIOLOGISTS REFLECT ON THE MEANING AND SIG. OF THE SOCIAL
WORLD WE LIVE IN
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• 3 core skills include complex and critical thinking skills, research, theorizing
• SOCIAL CONSTTRUCTION OF REALITY
• reality is composed of our social experiences
• society is a human product
• born into society that itself is a product of human activity
• habits turn into institutions and institutions control human beh. Through predefined
patterns of conduct
• objectivity of the institutional world is a human produced activity
• SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
• A way to understand relationships between individuals and larger social struct.
• THE PROMISE
• HUMANS DON’T LINK THEIR TROUBLES TO CONTEMPORARY HISTROY
• HISTORY OF A SOCIETY AND LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS GO HAND IN HAND
Lecture 4 notes
• Plato ideal forms
• Transcendence;
• Existence is a pure form of life
• The essence is idea of life, existence is taste, smell
• Nominalism
• MILLS
• Concerned over the tyranny of the majority over the minority
• Mills trying to protect minority
• Cant have opinions in ur head, they have to engage
• Text about social liberty
• Society can define limits but not dictate what you do
• Historically, tyranny expressed by elites over ppl
• The ruler should be identified with the ppl; an assumption
• The interest and will of the ppl should be that of the ruler
• Demo means the ppl and gov are one and same
• Are we in rep gov situation and how the ppl can tyrannize over itself
• 2nd amendment was to protect themselves from gov.
• the tyranny of majority over the tyranny
• the majority Is gonna rep things wil
• trynnay of the majority narrows down
• we can create minority gov by casting votes against them
• the problem is prevailing opinions harming individuals
• human nature is not a machine prescribed to follow steps
• individiauls as self-governing, rational,
• rationality=think of consequences
• no one gotta do by law what they should do by common sense
• the only purpose to enact law is to protect others
• the harm principle
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Document Summary
Sosc: how do u see ur society if ur in ur society, social s, how do i see myself personal qs. Is socially constr: know it is socially const. cuz of historical contexts, socialized means the social system is put in the individual, society is in u and u r in society, reality is socially const. society human product. Ideology is a set of ideas that protect the dominant interest in society and preserves the status quo final ex. qs. Insititutionalization, socialization, internalization: there is no natural position, u r either in them or challenging them, socioolgoy is an imagination is a way of looking at things, Lecture 1 reading notes: sociological concepts are diff from common sense ones because they are. Made to help sociologists reflect on the meaning and sig. Pols 1000 first reading notes: current democracies evolved from poli systems that were deemed as anti-
