SOC 100: EXAM #1 (CH 1-5) QUESTIONS
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Sociology - ANSWERS✔-The study of human society.
Sociology is the study of human society, and there is the sociology of sports, of
religion, of music, of medicine, even a sociology of sociologists.
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Sociological Imagination - ANSWERS✔-The ability to connect the most basic,
intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote
historical forces.
Sociological imagination, the ability to see the connections between our personal
experience and the larger forces of history.
- This is just what we are doing when we question this textbook, this course, and
college in general.
To see our intensely personal, private experience of life as typical of the period
and place in which we live.
,This can also serve as a source of comfort, however, helping us realize we are not
alone in our experiences, whether they involve our alienation from the
increasingly dog-eat-dog capitalism of modern America, the peculiar combination
of intimacy and dissociation that we may experience on the internet, or the ways
that nationality or geography affect our life choices.
- The sociological imagination thus allows us to see the veneer of social life for
what it is and to step outside the "trap" of rapid historical change in order to
comprehend what is occurring in our world and the social foundations that may
be shifting right under our feet.
Both a set of skills and a way of seeing.
Connects our personal experiences to society at large and greater historical forces.
Making the familiar strange
- Allows us to "make the familiar strange," or question habits or customs that
seem "natural" to us.
It questions the customs, traditions, habits, norms, and things that feel natural to
humans.
Our norms are not static or permanent.
It is a "tool kit" that helps us understand the social world.
It is also a "lens" that is put on that can be hard to take off.
- It shows connections between humans and actions.
,- Seeing interconnections between individuals and the society they live in and
create.
Looking at the connections between individuals and society "makes t
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Social Institution - ANSWERS✔-A complex group of interdependent positions that,
together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time; also defined
in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior
of the groups or people within it.
A college is an institution that acts as a gatekeeper to what are considered
legitimate forms of educational advantage by certifying what is legitimate
knowledge.
- It is an institution that segregates great swaths of the population by age.
A social institution is a complex group of interdependent positions that, together,
perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time.
- Sometimes institutions even try to rupture their identity intentionally.
- This grand narrative that constitutes social identity is nothing more than the sum
of individual stories told between pairs of individuals.
Trying to understand social institutions such as the legal system, the labor market,
or language itself is at the heart of sociological inquiry.
, Social institutions are networks of structures in society that work to socialize the
groups of people within them. Examples include:
- The legal system
- The labor market
- The educational system: the military
- The family
ME: Social institutions achieve a certain goals that an individuals on their own
wouldn't be able to do.
They are enduring.
- People are in these institutions but consistently move in and out of it.
- Ex: College: students are frequently graduating and moving in.
What Is a Social Institution?
- Example: A college is a social institution
that acts as gatekeeper to "legitimate" forms of education by deciding who can
attend.
- That segregates great swaths of the population by age.
- That is a proprietary brand that is marketed on items like
sweatshirts and mugs and through televised sporting events.
- That has an informal
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AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Ch 1
Sociology - ANSWERS✔-The study of human society.
Sociology is the study of human society, and there is the sociology of sports, of
religion, of music, of medicine, even a sociology of sociologists.
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Sociological Imagination - ANSWERS✔-The ability to connect the most basic,
intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote
historical forces.
Sociological imagination, the ability to see the connections between our personal
experience and the larger forces of history.
- This is just what we are doing when we question this textbook, this course, and
college in general.
To see our intensely personal, private experience of life as typical of the period
and place in which we live.
,This can also serve as a source of comfort, however, helping us realize we are not
alone in our experiences, whether they involve our alienation from the
increasingly dog-eat-dog capitalism of modern America, the peculiar combination
of intimacy and dissociation that we may experience on the internet, or the ways
that nationality or geography affect our life choices.
- The sociological imagination thus allows us to see the veneer of social life for
what it is and to step outside the "trap" of rapid historical change in order to
comprehend what is occurring in our world and the social foundations that may
be shifting right under our feet.
Both a set of skills and a way of seeing.
Connects our personal experiences to society at large and greater historical forces.
Making the familiar strange
- Allows us to "make the familiar strange," or question habits or customs that
seem "natural" to us.
It questions the customs, traditions, habits, norms, and things that feel natural to
humans.
Our norms are not static or permanent.
It is a "tool kit" that helps us understand the social world.
It is also a "lens" that is put on that can be hard to take off.
- It shows connections between humans and actions.
,- Seeing interconnections between individuals and the society they live in and
create.
Looking at the connections between individuals and society "makes t
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Social Institution - ANSWERS✔-A complex group of interdependent positions that,
together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time; also defined
in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior
of the groups or people within it.
A college is an institution that acts as a gatekeeper to what are considered
legitimate forms of educational advantage by certifying what is legitimate
knowledge.
- It is an institution that segregates great swaths of the population by age.
A social institution is a complex group of interdependent positions that, together,
perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time.
- Sometimes institutions even try to rupture their identity intentionally.
- This grand narrative that constitutes social identity is nothing more than the sum
of individual stories told between pairs of individuals.
Trying to understand social institutions such as the legal system, the labor market,
or language itself is at the heart of sociological inquiry.
, Social institutions are networks of structures in society that work to socialize the
groups of people within them. Examples include:
- The legal system
- The labor market
- The educational system: the military
- The family
ME: Social institutions achieve a certain goals that an individuals on their own
wouldn't be able to do.
They are enduring.
- People are in these institutions but consistently move in and out of it.
- Ex: College: students are frequently graduating and moving in.
What Is a Social Institution?
- Example: A college is a social institution
that acts as gatekeeper to "legitimate" forms of education by deciding who can
attend.
- That segregates great swaths of the population by age.
- That is a proprietary brand that is marketed on items like
sweatshirts and mugs and through televised sporting events.
- That has an informal
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