SOCL 2001 : Exam 1 Notes
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: military: socialized through discipline by reshaping the group"s perception on how the day is meant to be carried out. Other examples include prisons and boarding schools to the broader concept of family: such institutions are susceptible to shifting perceptually, leading to differing views in society, ex. : unemployment is more focused on nationally rather than within each state: society and culture, culture is not limited to one central location; can be both. Bigger and smaller than things : culture, when specifically focusing on a smaller unit of culture, such as a family, can become micro, global, macro-objective, examples- society, law, bureaucracy, architecture, technology, and language. Micro-objective: examples- patterns of behavior, action, and interaction. Micro subjective: examples- perceptions, beliefs; the various facets of the social construction of reality, perceptions, however, aren"t always valid. The sociological imagination: wright mills, historical context: connecting biography and history, make the familiar strange.
