Sociology Quiz 3

Of the following influences, the one that C. Wright Mills most attributed to being the one that

Cooley argues that our self develops through interactions and our impressions about how other people see us. Do you think that he is correct? Why or why not?

Chapter six brings a different approach at introducing the importance of sociology. This chapter, focuses upon the historical significance of American sociology as society knows of it today. It discusses many different aspects of sociology, but it intentionally focuses on these important aspects that include: “The Chicago school”, sociologists whom attributed to American sociology, and the rise of female sociologists. These three fundamentals establish the overall history of American sociology.

Chapter 3 of The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology explains to the reader what culture is and goes into depth of the different concepts within culture. It defines culture as “the entire way of life for a group of people” (Ferris & Stein, 2010, p. 77). Culture is described as a “lens” through which one views the world and is passed from one generation to the next. This “entire way of life”, according to sociologists, consists of two major categories: material and symbolic culture. Material culture involves the entities associated with a cultural group, such as tools, machines, utensils, buildings, and artwork. When examining material culture, it can convey a great deal about a particular group or society. Symbolic culture embraces ways

If Sociology is the systematic study of human society, then sociological imagination is what we perceive or think about how people work and or think in a more personal and bias matter. C.W. Mills believes that merging two different theories of social reality of the “individual” and “society”. Mills challenges readers and learners by arguing many basic terms and definitions from what “we” believe are right. Chapters one and two talks about how society portrays what we know rather then the facts. Our bias opinions and beliefs often go against what science has proven.

a. Harry Harlow – surrogate mother experiment pg.111 must read and notes contact and comfort

After reading both chapters 8 and 9, they both discuss the relationships between the productions and consumption of contemporary popular music and how complex they are. In these both chapters sociologist has studied the different aspects of popular music and popular music in the society. In chapter 8, one section that really stood out to me was, the ‘Young people and cultural productivity’. In the beginning of this section it states that “Willis and his colleagues (1990) argue that as human beings we are symbolically creative, saying that ‘we argue for symbolic creativity as an integral (“ordinary”) part of human conditions, not as inanimate peaks rising above the mists’ “. In other words, humans like to create meaning to everything, including the music we listen to.

Chapter 16 focuses on the colonial era between 1836-1996 known as the Indian Residential Era. First Nations, Inuits, Metis were all subject to assimilatory of the government. During the era first nations were forced to go to residential schools. Children that were sent to residential schools were robbed from their culture and identity. They were given Christian names and forced to obey the system. The profound silence among First Nation peoples has drastically impacted the lives and displaced many individuals. The profound silence with regards to residential schools still exists today. In addition, residential schools impacted families and communities from teaching children long-valued and cultural

7. Use ideas from clips from Unnatural Causes to highlight how inequality effects health outcomes. Discuss two examples.

A. The theme of injustice contributes to the story’s understatement because through the plot of

As I have been constantly reminded throughout the duration of this course, deviance can have many definitions. For the purpose of this paper, I will used the relativist definition: deviance is behaviors that illicit a definition or label of deviance. However, behaviors or acts are not inherently deviant. They become so when the definition of deviance is applied. So the focus is not on why individuals violate norms, but instead how those norms are constructed. Norms are rules of behavior that guide people’s actions (Inderbitzin, Bates and Gainey 2015:3). They are society’s rules of appropriate behavior. Norms are generally broken down into three categories: laws, mores, and folkways. Laws are the strongest norms backed by official sanctions or a more formal response. Mores are “moral” norms that may generate outrage if broken. And folkways are everyday norms that do not generate much uproar if they are violated.

McDonaldization is a terminology created by George Ritzier a sociologist in the book “The McDonaldization of Society” (1993). Ritzier explains on how the modern society is adopting the physiognomies of the fast food industry. McDonaldization is a reconceptualization of rationalization, or moving from traditional to rational modes of thought, and scientific management. McDonaldization has become a way life and it’s affecting society in all aspects of life and not only the food industry, from Health care, education, and the workplace. The reason for this is because society is moving at a faster and a moderate pace.

This Sociology project is based on the observation of groups to see what kind of people they were and to see how groups interact with each others and what their behaviors are. The first, place I went to was Taco Bell on Main Street because I hungry after a school activity called the Battle of the books, Therefore as I sat down to feast on my three dollar nacho fries box, I notice a group of four UM university student’s that were across from me and decided to observe them. It was composed of all male African Americans and they appeared to be talking about sports the one that seemed to be the leader of the group was a tall guy with a Falcon t-shirt because he was mostly leading them. The second, one was younger who would often make ridiculous

1.A. How would you describe the HR practices and beliefs of the program manager, the narrator of this case?

What responsibility does class play in the work area, what is the analysis of class relations?