Introduction to Sociology Lecture Notes
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These lecture notes cover key concepts in introductory sociology, including the sociological imagination, research methods, social structure, and culture. The notes also explore deviance, race, and ethnicity, offering insights into how societies function and the factors shaping individual behavior and social interactions.
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Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lecture 3: Sociological Research Methods Agenda: How sociologists investigate - - - - - Sociology is a different kind of science. Sociologica...
Lecture 2: The Sociological Imagination - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lecture 3: Sociological Research Methods Agenda: How sociologists investigate - - - - - Sociology is a different kind of science. Sociological Research Methods - - Sociologists develop probabilistic theories of social action - - - How do sociologists investigate social processes - - - Research Questions - - - - - - - - Quantitative Research Methods - Variables - - I&D Variables Exist when we have co-variation - - - - - - Quantitative Research Methods - - Ex of Quantitative methods -experiments Standardized surveys Field Experiments - - - - Criminal and race and how they react to each other Experiments - - - - Surveys - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Examples - - - Participant Observation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Historical and content analysis - - - - - - - What good is qualitative research if you can\'t generalize to a population? - - What are theories? - - - Sociological theories - - - Lecture 4: Social Structure and the Individual - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social structures reproduce themselves only when Lecture 5: Culture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lecture 6: Deviance Last Time: Culture Stigma - - - - Deviance: - - - - - What is Stigma? - - - - - - - - - - Three types of stigma - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Deviance is normal - Lecture 7: Race and Ethnicity What is race? - - - - - - - Symbolic Category - - - Phenotype and Ancestry - - Social and Historical Contexts - - - Racialization and white supremacy - - Racial Ideology - - Race as a variable vs. race as a social process - Misrecognized as natural - What is ethnicity? - Wrap-up -
