Midterm Nats 1775 Review
Autor: Victoria Kravchenko • October 3, 2016 • Course Note • 764 Words (4 Pages) • 985 Views
Midterm review
Format
5 multiple choice
5 matching
1 section with definitions
2 sections on short question answers
- Sociological Imagination – when you connect social issues with personal problems.
Ex. Connection between one individual and the society such as stereotyping (association with Jane and Finch area and people from there). Allows to understand others. You think about how something is related to broader social issues. Asking sociological questions
Structure and agency – home, classroom and school
To understand social changes
Problems: deterministic
Agencies
Physical strength (p. 19)
Docile body – subject to change, doesn’t have say or control because it is constructed by social norms
Problem: anorexia, hysteria, agarophobia
Fuco
Sex and gender
Sex – biological answer, gender – sociological
Transgender – across gender
Self-regulating process
Conflict perspective system that creates social inequalities
Karl Marx: 2 classes proletariat and bourgeoisie
Suicide - an individual is assessing his life and then making a decision to end it all. Conclusion made by Durkheim:
1) men are more likely to commit suicide then women (social pattern)
Reason: women are more connected with society, and that support helps them to deal with problems, while the role of man is tough, they often have to wear mask and hide emotions), and
2) protestants are more likely to commit suicide than Catholics (another social pattern)
Reason: not connected to social others either
Social cohesion: those who have social support are more likely to have other ways to deal with problem
Agency structure
Binary – dividing into two (mutually exclusive)
Dichotomy – how binary gets constructed
Problem: world is more diverse than binary
Intersexional – how layers of different identities result in multiple ways of oppression
Envy of the penis - Freud
Patriarchy – male dominance, power of the father
Talks about broader…
Gender identity – one’s sense of who they are
Gender representation
Intersex (more about anatomy)– anyone’s anatomy that does not conform to traditional male/female
Transgender – transitioning from one state to another
Division of labour (Durkheim)– how specific roles are made to make society function
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