Midterm Nats 1775 Review

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