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GE-WOR 101 The Contemporary World: @mei - Sria !1

This document provides an introduction to sociological concepts including socialization, social control, social stratification, and the sociological imagination. It discusses how society shapes individuals through socialization and social forces while also giving individuals agency to actively participate in society. The sociological imagination allows people to understand how personal experiences are influenced by social structures and how individuals can help shape society.

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GE-WOR 101 The Contemporary World: @mei - Sria !1

This document provides an introduction to sociological concepts including socialization, social control, social stratification, and the sociological imagination. It discusses how society shapes individuals through socialization and social forces while also giving individuals agency to actively participate in society. The sociological imagination allows people to understand how personal experiences are influenced by social structures and how individuals can help shape society.

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GE-WOR 101 The Contemporary World

Construct - Power to build structures in this society. - SOCIALIZATION - the process of learning how to
The central structure gets the power. E.g. Patriarchy become a participant member of society
and Capitalism, Religion - Social control — incentive from external
institutions (e.g., stars in primary school); we are
An invitation to Sociology socialized into this construct.
Man in Society - you have internalized the very structure within
“Society does not stop at the surface of our skins. you
Society penetrates us as much as it envelopes us.” -
Peter Berger SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION - C. Wright Mills
- “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of
“The way in which such location tells an individual a society can be understood without
just what he may do and what he can expect of understanding both”
life; to be located in society means to be at the - Encourages us to take an active part in society to
intersection point of specific social forces.” - Peter get out of the feeling of being trapped.
Berger - Sociology is a discipline that looks at itself and the
understanding that its society has a
- Defining what you may do and what you can transformative potential.
expect of life; how they can relate to you. - “A quality of mind, a capacity to understand the
interplay of man and society, of biography and
Certain mechanisms: history, of self and the social world”
1. Social control — mechanisms to keep members - It helps us understand how the social situation
of society in line shapes our private realities — often in ways over
2. Social stratification — system by which society which we have limited control
ranks categories of people in a hierarchy; life - “The personal troubles of milieu” VS “the public
chances and lifestyle — dependent on certain issues of social structure”
privileges and resources/connections that one - Social integration — process during which
has. newcomers or minorities are incorporated into
3. Definition of the situation — there are standards the social structure of the host society; in societies
of actions for every situation; defined by norms that have communities with solidarity and
but can be redefined by the people who use equality during Durkheim’s time (religious society,
them in their interactions. protestant societies);
- Social Issues
“Society is sui generis, it confronts us with a massive
reality… it is there something to be reckoned with, it - Individual - gives better understanding of why
is EXTERNAL to ourselves and encompasses our life things happen thus gaining a wider potential
on all sides; we are in society, located in specific freedom from social pressures
sectors of the social system which predetermines - Empowers people to be active participants in
almost everything that we do; it confronts us in the society
form of COERCION.” - Emile Durkheim - Society - shaping of public policy

Agency vs. Structure


Agency - ability of the individual to do things

- Society is not only OUT THERE but IN HERE, part of


our innermost being; coming from US.

@mei_sria !1

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