SOCI201- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Sex overview: perspectives on sex (bio, social, norms and sex, patterns in sexual behavior, the bottom line: sociologists study social effects, look for patterns. Law: symbol of love and commitment, often sanctified religiously; special set of holy words chanted, means that. Should people caught sexting be registered as sex offenders: as times change and technology changes, the rules change. Compensated dating : footbinding (now banned in china) had erotic meaning; wrap young girls" feet very tightly so they end up with very small feet. Sex about medicine: john brinkley implanted goat testicles into men; killed many of his patients, viagra. Sex about law: against interracial and same-sex marriage, sex offenders. Suicide: invention of sociology, explaining patterns in suicide, producing suicides, the bottom line: sociology requires thinking systematically about social relationships. Inductive reasoning: start with a lot of observations, identify a pattern, create a tentative hypothesis, build a theory, observation pattern tentative hypothesis theory.