SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Lady Gaga, Elle Woods, Symbolic Interactionism
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Sociology: the systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Social class: a position people occupy in a hierarchy that is shaped by economic criteria, including wealth and income. Theory: a conjecture about the way observed facts are related. Social causes are distinct from emotional or physical causes. From britney spears to lady gaga: sociological explanations of fashion cycles. Focuses on how large social structures, such as the relations among classes produces social stability in some circumstances and social change in others. Fashion cycles are a means by which big business owners make profit, they introduce new clothing often in order to make more money. Cycles distract people from real world problems and keep them from rebelling a social equilibrium is maintained: does make sense (ex. Colour mafia group of people who decide the it colours of the season) but most consumers are smart and don"t blindly buy into this (ex.
