SOCI201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Thorstein Veblen, Altruistic Suicide, Erving Goffman

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

Document Summary

Learned most ppl masturbated and had sex before marriage and about 1/3 of men had a homosexual experience. Adulterers are stoned in afghanistan bc they have sinned. Incest rules about marriage / same sex marriage laws / ages / numbers (polyamories) / Distributing a sext pic is a form of child porn. Missionary position called that bc medieval theologians argued that the position was more likely to cause conception (gravity), less animalistic, less lustful. Can be arrested for selling body for sex or offering to pay for it i. e. prostitution. Rules vary from place to place, for ex. High school girls sell their underwear to a store. Footbinding (now banned in china) had erotic meaning. Sociologists talk about scripts change old patterns of dating. The bottom line: sociologists study social effects and look for patterns! We tend to think of suicide as a psychological issue. It can be considered honorable (in war and other cultures)