BGSU SOC 1010 Exam 1 Study Guide
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Sociology - ✔✔the study of human society
The Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills) - ✔✔the ability to see the link
between society and self; helps us "make the familiar strange" or to
question habits or customs that seem "natural" to us
Ex: cultural food
Social institutions - ✔✔groups of social positions connected by social
relations that perform a social role; networks of structures in society that
work to socialize the groups of people within then
Ex: legal system, labor market, family
Social forces - ✔✔human created ways of doing things that influence,
pressure, or force people to behave, interact with others, or think in
specified ways
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, Social structures - ✔✔enduring relationships among various groups and
trends in coordinated human behaviors; structures are lasting patterns of
behavior and social organization that maintain, inform, condition, and
constrain other behavior
Ex: gender, race, social class
How do social institutions/social structures relate to one another? -
✔✔Social structure determines how social institutions act
Ex: gender structures the family
Thinking like a sociologist: sociological perspectives and the sociological
imagination - ✔✔making the familiar strange
Ex: cultural foods
Social construction - ✔✔a theory that examines the development of jointly-
constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared
assumptions about reality
Ex: borders for a country
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Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Sociology - ✔✔the study of human society
The Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills) - ✔✔the ability to see the link
between society and self; helps us "make the familiar strange" or to
question habits or customs that seem "natural" to us
Ex: cultural food
Social institutions - ✔✔groups of social positions connected by social
relations that perform a social role; networks of structures in society that
work to socialize the groups of people within then
Ex: legal system, labor market, family
Social forces - ✔✔human created ways of doing things that influence,
pressure, or force people to behave, interact with others, or think in
specified ways
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Social structures - ✔✔enduring relationships among various groups and
trends in coordinated human behaviors; structures are lasting patterns of
behavior and social organization that maintain, inform, condition, and
constrain other behavior
Ex: gender, race, social class
How do social institutions/social structures relate to one another? -
✔✔Social structure determines how social institutions act
Ex: gender structures the family
Thinking like a sociologist: sociological perspectives and the sociological
imagination - ✔✔making the familiar strange
Ex: cultural foods
Social construction - ✔✔a theory that examines the development of jointly-
constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared
assumptions about reality
Ex: borders for a country
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
