SOC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Darwinism, Verstehen, Symbolic Interactionism
7 Oct 2015
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Paragraph 1: who we are as a person how we think or what we do depends on our surroundings. Sociology studies the effects of society on people/groups etc. Paragraph 2: sociology is technical and unbiased so that it can provide analysis that we can believe are true sociology is the logical way of grouping individuals by their behavior and contrasting them to other groups of individuals. Paragraph 3: sociologists and the media examine the same subjects, but sociologists use techniques to explain social issues rather than generalizations media- provokes opinions, sociologists- examines behaviors. Paragraph 4: sociologists try to find the cause or explain the way they (groups) act that way, thus contributing a unique perspective. Paragraph 1: sociological perspective is the ability of seeing the strange from the familiar the opposite of common sense. Paragraph 2: c. wright mills first to understand the relationship between the individual and the environment they live in.
