Intro to Sociology

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Intro to Sociology
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• Definition- the study of human social
  behavior
• A social science

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Background

• Relatively new science
• Started in late 19th century Europe
• Father of SOC Auguste Compte
• SOC in the U.S. 1892 at the University of Chicago

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• Someone who cant find a job is _____________.
• Homelessness is the result of ____________.
• Immigrants came here because of ______________.

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Someone who cant find a job is _____________.
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Homelessness is the result of ____________.
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Immigrants came here because of ______________.
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• Sociological perspective- never on the
  individual!
• Concerned with societal causes

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Sociological Imagination

• helps us understand events in our daily lives
• Relationship between personal lives and events in
  society
• i.e. family size
• social pressure

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Theoretical Perspectives of SOC
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Fuctionalism

• Looks at the functions of each part of society
• Family
• Religion

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Conflict Perspective

• Emphasis on
• conflict,
• competition,
• change,
• and struggles

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Symbolic Interactionism

• More focus on how people interact
• As humans, we learn to react to symbols from
  others
• We learn the meaning of symbols and then base our
  behavior

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SOC Theories and Tattoos

• Answer the following questions on a separate
  sheet of paper as you watch the video (each
  answer should be at least 2 sentences)
• 1. What is the function of the tattoos?
• 2. How could the tattoos create conflict?
• 3. Describe a specific symbol in the video. How
  do people interact because of that symbol?
• 4. Overall reaction?

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Research Methods

• ________ percent of all American homes have
  telephones, electricity, and a flush toilet.
• 1. Survey
• Close ended vs open ended
• Need to use a representative sample (random)
• i.e. the Census

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• 2. Secondary Analysis
• Also known as precollected data
• 3. case study
• - investigate a single group, incident, or
  community
• 4. participant observation
• researcher becomes a member of the group
• i.e. Black Like Me

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Biased Judgments

• How do your examples relate?
• How are they different?
• Talk to a few people around youwhat do we look
  at to judge others?
• How often do you think our biased judgments are
  wrong?

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• http//school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/p
  rograms/stereotypes/
• Qualitative vs Quantitative on page 38