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Soc. 101 Introduction to Sociology. Professor Jill Stein. Overview. Course Basics: Enrollment Syllabus Class website Student profiles Clickers Video: A Vision of Student Today Introduction What is sociology ? Study of society What is society ? Range of topics. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Soc. 101 Introduction to Sociology
Professor Jill Stein
Overview Course Basics:
• Enrollment• Syllabus• Class website• Student profiles
• Clickers• Video: A Vision of Student
Today
Introduction• What is sociology?
• Study of society
• What is society?• Range of topics
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Introduction to SociologySoc. 101
Chapter 1:
Sociology and the Real World
(Part I)
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Overview Asking the Big Questions The Origins of Sociology Levels of Analysis The Sociological Perspective Starting Your Sociological Journey
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Asking the Big Questions
Understanding social life• The role of
superstition, myth, religion and tradition
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The Origins of Sociology
The emergence of social sciences (19th Century)
• Borrow from natural sciences• Apply scientific method to study the
social world A relatively modern discipline
• Overlap with other social sciences
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What is Sociology? The study of society The systematic/scientific study of
human society and social behavior• from large institutions and mass culture • to small groups and individual interactions
The study of “people doing things together” (Howard Becker)
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Howard Becker
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The fundamental premise of sociology:
Humans are
social animals
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How Sociology is Organized LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
MACRO Large-scale patterns
• Political, economic, cultural and other social institutions
“Top-Down” approach
MICRO Small groups and
interaction• Everyday life, group
membership and identity
“Bottom-Up” approach
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Studies on Power and Gender
MACRO Christine Williams
• Women in male-dominated occupations
• Glass ceiling
• Men in female-dominated occupations
• Glass escalator
MICRO Pam Fishman
• Male–female relationships through conversation
• women ask 3x as many questions
• Because they do not expect to get a response by simply making a statement
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It’s Official: Men Talk More Than Women
Research challenges gender stereotypes• Importance of social context
Men talk more:• With wives, strangers
• Use more assertive speech
Women talk more:• With children and classmates
• Use more affiliative speech
Equally talkative:• With close friends and family
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The Sociological Perspective
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“Invitation to Sociology”by Peter Berger
What makes a good social thinker? Passionate interest in human affairs Intense, curious and daring in pursuit of
knowledge Cares about issues of ultimate
importance• As well as mundane occurrences of
everyday life
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CULTURE SHOCK We are like “fish in water”
• How to see what we are immersed in Disorientation occurs entering a radically
new environment• Anthropology field research• The impact of a new place on outsiders or
foreigners• Makes the familiar strange
Example from the movie “Cast Away”
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“BEGINNER’S MIND”
From Zen Buddhist tradition• Adapted to sociology by
Bernard McGrane Contrast with “expert’s mind”
• Filled with facts, assumptions, preconceptions, and opinions
“Discovery is not the seeing of a new thing, but rather a new way of seeing things”
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“I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see”
Sherlock Holmes
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LOUIS CK: EVERYTHING’S AMAZING
YouTube Video:
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“The Sociological Imagination”
C. Wright Mills
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The Sociological Imagination
Link between personal experience and broader social forces
Mutual influence• How society shapes individuals
• How individuals shape society
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What is the connection between:
the “personal troubles of milieu” and
the “public issues of social structure.”
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The intersection between biography and history
Personal Individual Private
Social Collective Public
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SOCIOLOGICAL VARIABLESWhich of these helps to define you?
History Nationality Culture Politics Economics Social Class
Religion Race/Ethnicity Sex/Gender Education Family
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Why sociology is so radical
Sociologists must: uncover assumptions and beliefs focus on the overlooked question everything reinterpret understandings