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Introduction to Sociology
Soc. 101
Professor Jill Stein
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Soc. 101: Introduction to Sociology
Course Basics: • Enrollment
• Review syllabus
• Class website:
www.profstein.wordpress.com
Introduction • What is sociology?
• Study of society
• What is society?
• Range of topics
• The Digital Age
– YouTube video: A Vision of Students Today
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Introduction to Sociology
Soc. 101
Chapter 1:
Sociology and
the Real World
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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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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 VARIABLES
Which of these helps to define you?
History
Nationality
Culture
Politics
Economics
Social Class
Religion
Race/Ethnicity
Sex/Gender
Education
Family
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Starting Your
Sociological Journey
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Famous Sociology Majors
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Why sociology is
so radical
Sociologists must:
uncover assumptions and beliefs
focus on the overlooked
question everything
reinterpret understandings