SOCL 2001 Chapter : Sociology 2001
Document Summary
Social relations- the key factor for why things happen//social networks- Inequality occupy wall street and presidential election: social class, income, wealth, education. 1960: half blacks lived in ghetto neighborhoods (80%: now only 20% whites more integrated with asians and hispanics than with blacks average white lives in a neighborhood that is 78% white and 7% black. Least segregation is in metro areas with small black populations. Type 1 (verbal) and type 2 (nonverbal: type 2 as verification device. Communication problems: performance in school, job interviews, sex. Interpretation of the immediate set of circumstances within which interaction takes place. Thomas theorem: if people define situations as real, then they are real in their consequences. Maintenance of a surface of agreement : suppression of disagreements, mother/daughter date and liar"s dice. People are reluctant to engage in open contradiction: topic choice: the weather, the tigers. Can people lie effectively: most people overestimate the degree to which others actually believe their spin.
