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Week One Stack
Chapters 1-2-3-4-5 information
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the Sociological imagination? | C Wright Mills defined this as the ability to see the relationship between individual experience and the larger society. |
| How does sociology help us better understand our social world and ourselves? | It helps us see the complex connections between our own lives and the larger world, recurring patterns of the society and world in which we live. |
| Is there a difference between the sociologist and an anthropologists? | Anthropology seeks to understand human existence over geographic space and evolutionary time. Sociology seeks to understand contemporary social organization, relations and change. |
| What is culture? | The knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. |
| What is the difference between counterculture and subculture? | Counterculture strongly rejects the dominant societal values and norms, where subculture is a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some way significantly from that of the larger culture. |
| What purpose does socialization serve? | The lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society. |
| How does socialization occur? | Agents of socialization are the groups, institutions and people that teach us what we need to know in order to participate in society. |
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