SOC 10000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Structural Holes, Embeddedness, Social Entrepreneurship

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 10000
• Professor: Jared Wright

Document Summary

Making the familiar strange : need to use our social imagination to understand the outside world. Question the things or habits that seem natural to use. Example: nacerima reading, traditions that are regular seem irregular. Social imagination: the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history. Social institution: group of interdependent positions that together perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time. Work to shape the behavior of group and people with it. Social institution & identity: this group can shape the person personally. Example: being loyal to a team that always loses. Founders of sociology: karl marx: hated social classes, wanted no private property, saw history as a way of a man to gain control and dominate the environment. Government could create equality: max weber: brought back the material in the world. Believed you should study society by being in it.