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Title: Introduction to Sociology
Description: An intro class to sociology, covers, class, structure, ideology and Karl Marx.
Description: An intro class to sociology, covers, class, structure, ideology and Karl Marx.
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Sociology
Sept 18th
Class
Describes your economic and social position
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19th
- Karl Marx (19th Century) : Class determined by relationship to means of production
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- Social divisions based on gender race, ability, consumption, etc
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To make your down decisions, choices
- Groups can have a collective agency, they can act as a group
- The actions your agency makes possible, will always have a social context, or else
they don’t really make sense
- So social context restrains your agency
- In sociology a key debate is how much Agency is restrained by Social Structure ie
Agency vs Structure
Structure
- Social structure act in patterns and repeated norms reoccurring over and over again
create an on going social structure
- Attitudes beliefs etc structure social order
Paradigm
- Shared beliefs explaining how world works; why things happen; who can do what etc
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Europeans saw selves as more evolved, civilized
b) in 1800’s doctors believed that women's hysteria was caused by their reproductive
organs, giving them hysterectomies
c) In 1400 miasma (foul air) caused illness
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; they
caused illness
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Each change is a
paradigm shift
Ideology
- System of cultural beliefs, values, attitudes etc
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our economy reflects Capitalist Ideology
- Ideology works to justify and maintain current patterns of power, wealth and authority
- Heterosexual Ideology; Only heterosexual marriages and household were proper
marriages
- Patriarchal Ideology; Men’s dominance over women
- Democratic Ideology; Dictates that it is the best system for a free society
Hegemony
- Antonio Gramsci, hegemony results from dominant group imposing its outlook, acting
to maintain and legitimize the dominate groups control
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establish power
- Eg, When we imagine a terrorist, we imagine someone who looks middle east
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daily life is organized and understood via shared
common sense approach to interaction, that makes things seem natural and inevitable
- Language is essential component; shared meanings, explanations etc
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that shape, constructs reality
- We each experience life uniquely, from our subjective point of view, making sense of it
objectively through shared language, common sense etc
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It emerges from social and cultural
standards
Title: Introduction to Sociology
Description: An intro class to sociology, covers, class, structure, ideology and Karl Marx.
Description: An intro class to sociology, covers, class, structure, ideology and Karl Marx.