Lecture 1 - Midterm Flashcards
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What does SOC202 intend to teach us?
SOC 202 facilitates the development of a general sociological perspective and point of view in terms of examining, scrutinizing, interpreting and understanding popular culture.
What topics does lecture 1 introduce?
- Ideology
- Hegemony
- Social conflict
- Mode of production
- Power
- Consumerism
The consumption of mainstream television, cinema and music is not just for leisure, it also…
reflects many of the social issues in pop culture, relating to gender, race, sexuality, social class and power.
What is socialization?
The process where we learn the social cultural characteristics that come to define us
What does socialization permit us to do?
To be connected in social relationships, enables us to make sense of the world
Our socialization fosters a recognition of…
Self and others
What contributes to the personal biographies of each individual as an active self within a greater and larger system, culture.
Social identities and social roles
***While taking part or participating in the social world, an individual is also participating in their own socialization while…(4)
a) communicating through gestures or language use
b) learning and acquiring knowledge,
c) while engaging in social interactions
d) also becoming familiarized with the norms, values and customs that indicate one as an active member of a society or community as they enter into social relationships and make sense of, and participate in, society around them.
***Sociology emphasizes what in regards to our own self?
“emphasizes the way in which selves are socially shaped and managed through the processes of socialization, interaction and biographical identity work”
According to ______ _______ the construction of the self is…
Erving Goffman,
The self is bound up in presentation and performance in which the individual, the actor, labours in producing a social identity of themselves that then enters the public social world.
Erving Goffman’s profession is what?
Sociologist
What book did Goffman write?
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
What is Goffman’s book about?
Goffman contends the social world is in many ways similar to a theatrical stage production, and in recognizing these similarities he offers an inventive way of understanding human interaction and behaviour.
Goffman saw the self as moving from where to where in regards to a stage?
Moving between the frontstage arena and the backstage.
What happens on the frontstage?
Where publicly visible social characters are performed
What happens on the backstage?
Actors keep their props or ‘identity equipment’ and can relax out of role
Who is C. Wright Mills?
American sociologist
What term did C. Wright Mills conceive?
Sociological imagination
***What does the sociological imagination do?
It enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society.
***What are the 4 things that social imagination shows us/does?
a) draws connections between the social world and how society works in terms of their own personal life as well as those of others
b) we see our life in the lives of others in terms of privilege, marginalization, (in)equality, power, shared experience and difference(s)
c) we recognize the personal is also the political: a personal issue that is a social issue may also have political implications attached to it.
d) we see past histories in present experiences and social structures; for example, understanding a society’s history in terms of power, privilege, (in)equality, legacies, successes and failures
At the most basic level, what does culture do?
It reflects the social and cultural practices of specific groups or societies.
Culture is both a very ___- and __________ term, but also a ________ and _________ one
Clear and recognizable
Complicated and complex
Culture is easily defined as…
A system of shared beliefs, values, customs and behaviors we use to negotiate and come to understand the world around us, and often these system elements are passed down generationally
Who is Raymond Williams?
Welsh writer and academic
