SOC 100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
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The individualism model does not work, we are always participating in something larger than ourselves (this is harder to prove in the us vs easier in europe) This is because it was this kind of thinking that gave birth to our nation (18th cent enlightenment, credited to russo) Capitalism also reinforces this kind of thought, we are focused on individual achievement. When we were first started, people had to rely on themselves because they weren"t a huge population. Individualism/agency: explains the world in terms of what"s going on inside individuals. It sees social problems as resulting from flaws in individual character. *johnson says this is wrong and that we have to understand what we"re participating in (much like durkheim, sociology is powerful) Johnson believes that we participate in social systems (school, family, socioeconomic status, political systems) A social system: is a collection of roes in relationship to one another, forming a coherent whole w.
