Sociology

to view personal problems as public issues Ex: HealthCare in order to benefit everyone

Place of conflict where groups of people exist who do not have the same interest, making a place where most conflict occurs Ex: Feminism, Race

• symbolic interaction theory - the self is figured out through social interaction
• "I am not who I think I am, I am not who you think I am, I am who I think you think I am." - Cooley

Organic: Every individual on their own choses what to do, but uses the values of society to make their decisions (voluntarily learning about society) "bigger societies" Individual

• Mechanical: Working together in a small society thinking about a 'group' opposed to 'individual' self, usually seen in smaller societies with less technology
• Group

We must all take a roll in society but view ourselves in the context of it. Ex: 2 year old playing mommy with doll

Talking to another about your day: Transforming subjectively felt feelings into an objective experiences (making sense of reality)

the interweaving of peoples' interactions and relationships in more or less recurrent and stable patterns Ex: Bureaucracy

Two or more people who are bound together in relatively stable patterns of social interaction and who share a feeling of unity

• most formal of all organizations, everything done is thought
• out rationally through the written laws. People treat each other in an
• impersonal way. Efficient gigantic organizations(USPS, Military, DVC registrars
• office)

• -flaws = slows down innovation since everything needs to be
• approved by so many people, slow at adapting, everyone is treated the same,
• lack of ability to adapt to certain changes

• 1970s – corporations figured out bureaucracies were not as
• efficient and started to break down into individual groups

• -individual teams
• working on set goals, but more power leads to more pay

bureaucracy is still more organized with no potential unions

ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will Ex: North Korea

gives power to people

social structures that organize, direct, and execute the esential tasks of living Ex: Colleges share a common goal of Higher Education

• Group of organizations that share a common goal (government
• share common goals and laws, the economic institutions consist of corporations,
• families, religious institutions)

social rules that specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior in given situations Ex: raising your hand during class

acts/objects that have come to be socially accepted as standing for something else

basic building blocks for cultures: Language, Gestures, Objects

belief that keeps people oppressed because they are persuaded what is happening to them is okay

folkways: norms people do not deem to be of great importance and exact less stringent conformity Ex: not going to jail for posession of pot for ten years

mores: norms to which people attach a great deal of importance and exact strict conformity Ex: subjectively felt

observing a society from your own rules/culture

A group of people who live within the same territory and share a common culture

analyzing through experience

shared moral values, functionalist society

form of conflict theory where the upper class can exploit the lower class

ranking by which people are evaluated or judged by

Organization containing roles, rules, and goals

intrisic vs extrinsic goals

can only stay in power if their commands are legit

behaviors expected from a person occupying a position

values, objects etc. that make up a society: the social heritage of people

what is expected to be proper: raising your hand in order to learn as opposed to a norm which would be why its proper

written laws

nonwritten assumed proper behavior

method for analyzing

analyzing another society in comparison to their own culture

something that influences people