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Quiz: ● define term ● concrete example ● relevance( Q: y we care?// A: term tells us about social inequality, power in society)

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Social Networks A. Mark Zuckerberg (creator of FB) 1. created so students at Harvard can connect with one another 2. FB lead to social networks a) def: ties btwn ppl, groups, and organizations. b) Socio insight: ppl need more than just close friends and family. Sociology A. Basics 1. Soc concerned with how ppl influenced by society 2. Society: large group of ppl who live i same area and participate in a common culture 3. sociology: study of society and social worlds that indv inhabit within them a) faces specific challenges of trying to uncover and analyze the patterns that lie beneath surface of social worlds b) study of how we live together, not indv B. Sociological Imagination a) def: capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal problems are social issues that shared by others in similar time and location as us (1) ex of social issues: student loans, divorce parents, b) soc. imag. allow us to uderstad world around us, thik of how it works/how improve it, recognize how shape our lives, 2. C Wright Mills a) invented “sociological imagination) b) “soc imag allow us to understand history and biography and relations btwn 2 society” 3. stereotype (1) def: simplified generalization about a group that if false/exaggerated (2) often negative but sometimes positive

b) c) Socio Imag & stereotypes (1) S.I. challenges stereotypes by ask questions about where come from, based on what, stands to benefit from them, why harmful (2) sociology give tools to understand/think critically/creatively about assumptions C. 1.1.2 Formation of Soci. Questions 1. Everyone has ability to do a form of sico. imag. a) requires pl to ask deeper/meaningful questions about everyday world around us b) our ability to ask hard questions instead of accepting EZ available answers 2. common sense aphorisms: short phrases stating truth/opinionn a) EX: “look before you leap”//”a rising tide lifts all boats”//”birds of a

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feather flock together” D. 1.1.3 Soc. Questions 1. Questions are… a) concerned with broad world b) rage from basic human life to groups/organizations What are Social Contexts and why do they matter? A. Social Contexts a) def: social enviro (economic/cultural conditions) that influence ppl’s lives 2. Family a) shape us by giving racial, ethic, religious identities, teach basic rules of society/how to behave in society/social settings, network, finances, 3. Neighborhood 4. Identities a) def: social char/group affiliations an individual has b) concept we/others have of wo we are, wat group we members of, 5. School/Organizations 6. Social/His Sociology as study of social contexts A. component of social worlds 1. social interaction a) def: way ppl act together, how modify/alter behavior i response to presence of others. (1) governed by “norms” (2) def: basic rule of society that helps ppl know what is and is not appropriate to do in situatin. Norms evolve over time as social atitufdes (3) change is slow (4) violation of norms>>problems b) “norms” of social interaction is created by…. 2. social structure a) def: exteral forces, (external hierarchy, normas, instituions,) that provide context for indv and group action b) describe diverse ways where ruleof norms become patterns that shape/govern every social interaction c) components of social structure (1) social hierarchy (a) def: Relationship btw indv/groups that in unequal and provides ppl with more status and power than other (2) institutions (a) def: complex term used to stand for structured/enduring practices of human life that are

built around well established rules and normals or are centered in important organizations (b) EX: gov, legal courts, churches, schools, military V.

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Origin of Soc A. Origin 1. French Philosopher Auguste Comte used the term “sociology” in 1839 a) believe would entail social statics (study of societies as they are) and social dynamics (process of social change) 2. Father of soc>> Emile Durkheim a) founded euro soociology department at Uni of Bordeaux and first major Euro journal of socio b) influential journal called Archiv fur sozialwissenschaft und socialpolitik (archives for social sciene and social welfare) 3. 5 Major Social Sciences a) sociology, economics, political science, psychology, anthropology Socio & Industrial Revolution A. What lead to an interest in Socio 1. Industrialization a) def: process of economic change char by decline of farming and growth of factories and large scales goods production 2. urbanization a) def: growth of cities B. Social Context during Industrialization 1. spread of factor labor created jobs in urban reas a) Def: geographic area with high population density (1) at LEAST 500 per square mile (2) grew in btwn 1850-1920 in euro and US (3) EX: 1000 indv per square mile 2. ppl leave farms to work factories, >>immigration from 1870-1920s 3. cities have much poverty, dirty 4. factories paid poorly, housing was expensive Sociology’s siblings A. Sociology 1. sociology has wider range of topics 2. socio explanation of how external world shape behavior of indc/social outcomes are broad a) go from indv>groups>institutes>global society B. Social Sciences 1. Economists concerned with indv economic bhvr (microeconomics) and performance of national/global econ 2. Psychologist interested in working of human mind 3. anthropologist look into diverse cultures and how vary across time and place 4. interdisciplinary research: a method of research that integrates ideas,

theories, and data from different academic fields a) soc use inter. research mucho C. Sociology’s Children...