#1: Sociology through film

Question 1

What is Sociology?

Answer 1

The academic and scholarly discipline that engages in systematic study of human society and social interactions.

Question 2

Sociological is? (6 terms)

Answer 2

Identity
Interaction
Structural Inequality
Institutions
Intersectionality
Sociological Imagination

Question 3

What is Identity?

Answer 3

Identity is not something “within us” it is the result of “social processes” it is relational and it is how we see ourselves.

Question 4

What is Social Interaction?

Answer 4

Social Interaction is how people affect one another. There are causes of interaction, processes of interaction and consequences of interaction.

Question 5

What is social structure?

Answer 5

Social structure is the network of relatively stable opportunities and constraints influencing our individual behaviours.

Question 6

Structural Inequality exists when?

Answer 6

Social structures systemically privilege (provide opportunities) or exclude (constrain) members of some groups and not others.

Question 7

What are Institutions?

Answer 7

Institutions are a special kind of social structure, they are governed by enduring rules and norms. examples include: the education system, catholic church, mcdonalds etc.

Question 8

Intersectionality

Answer 8

They are forms of social exclusion not isolated from one another. They intersect. some examples include:

race
class
gender
sexuality
ability.

An example of intersectionality is “a black woman in poverty”

Question 9

What is the Sociological Imagination?

Answer 9

The ability to see the relationship between an individual’s experiences and the larger society in which they are contextualized.

Question 10

sociological imagination:

personal troubles:

Answer 10

Individual challenges

Question 11

Sociological Imagination:

Public Issues :

Answer 11

(Social problems )beyond a persons control that originate at the regional or national level and can be resolved only by collective action.

Question 12

STRUCTURE VS. AGENCY

what is social structure?

Answer 12

the network of relatively stable opportunities and constraints influencing our individual behaviours.

Question 13

STRUCTURE VS. AGENCY

what is agency?

Answer 13

Agency refers to the idea that each of us has, to some extent, the ability to alter our socially constructed lives.

Question 14

Differences between structure vs agency?

Answer 14

Agency = independence, autonomy (personal troubles)
Structure= interdependence (public issues)

Question 15

What is a social problem?

Answer 15

• A condition (ex poverty)
• A pattern of behavior (eg. violence) that people believe warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change (harm a significant number of people/or a number of “significant” people) ex. holocaust. killing jews.

Question 16

Levels of Analysis : Micro

Answer 16

Biography
Internal
Milieu
Troubles
Personal 
Concrete
Identity
Individual

Question 17

Levels of Analysis: Macro

Answer 17

History
External
Structure
Issues
Public
Abstract
Society
Social

Question 18

Theory and Perspectives

What is Theory?

Answer 18

Theory: Set of logically related statements that attempt to describe, explain, or predict social events.

Question 19

Theory and Perspectives

What is Perspective?

Answer 19

Perspective: An overall approach or viewpoint toward some subject. Contains many similarly related theories.

Question 20

What is the “Functionalist Perspective” of society?

Answer 20

Society is stable, orderly system composed of interrelated parts that perform functions to keep society stable.

Question 21

Functionalist Perspective:

Functions:

Answer 21

Functions: Manifest functions are intended and recognized consequences of social processes; Latent functions are unintended; and Dysfunctions are undesirable.

Question 22

Functionalist Perspective:

Dysfunctions:

Answer 22

Dysfunctions: are undesirable consequences of an activity or social process that inhibit a society’s ability to adapt or adjust.

Question 23

Functionalist Perspective:

Social Disorganization;

Answer 23

Social Disorganization: conditions in society that undermine the ability of traditional social institutions to govern human behaviour.

Question 24

Functionalist Perspective:

Social Disorganization causes breakdowns in …what? (2 things)

Answer 24

Values and Norms:

Question 25

what are values?

Answer 25

Values: Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a specific society.

Question 26

What are Norms?

Answer 26

Norms are established rules or standards of conduct.

Question 27

Critical-Conflict Perspective:

Groups in society are engaged in continuing power struggles for ?

Answer 27

Groups in Society are engaged in continuing power struggles for control of scare resources.

Question 28

Critical Conflict Perspective:

Social problems arise out of what?

Answer 28

social problems arise out of the major contradictions inherent in the way societies are organized.

ex)
- CLASS: (owners v. workers)
- RACE (white vs. Other racialized groups)
- GENDER: (men vs. women)

Question 29

Feminist Perspective:

Theorists should look at…

Answer 29

Theorists should look at differential impacts of social phenomena on men and women, and emphasize power relationships.

Question 30

Feminist Perspective:

Patriarchy:

Answer 30

Concentration of power by men

Reflexive theory

Question 31

Interactionalist Perspective believe that society is…

Answer 31

Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.

Social construction of reality
Labelling
Tomas Theorem
Self-Fulfilling Prophesy