SMM11003 SOCIOLOGY IN NEW MEDIA

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Chapter 1: Discover Sociology

  • The Power of Society
    • Sociology shows us the power of society to guide all our life decisions in much the same way that the seasons influence our choice of clothing
  • The Sociological Perspective: What is
    • Sociology
      • Systematic study of human society
      • Distinctive view guided by sociological perspective
    • Sociological perspective
      • View that seen general patterns of society in the lives of particular people
  • The Sociological Perspective
    • How is the sociological perspective defined?
      • Seeing general patterns in the behavior of particular people (Berger 1963)
      • Seeing society shapes what we think and do in patterned ways
      • Seeing society in our everyday lives
    • Emile Durkheim's Study of Suicide
      • Does society affect decisions about suicide?
        • More likely to commit: Male Protestants who were wealthy and unmarried
        • Less likely to commit: Male Jews and Catholics who were poor and married
      • Basic findings: Why?
        • The differences between these groups had to do with "social integration"
        • Those with strong social ties had less of a chance of committing suicide
        • Freedom weakens social ties and increase risk of suicide
  • What is sociological imagination?
    • C. Wright Mills
      • Society, not people is main cause poverty and other social
        problems.
      • By turning personal problems into public issues, the sociological
        imagination is the key to bringing people together to create
        needed change
  • Applying the Sociological Perspective
    ◦ Usefulness of applying the sociological perspective
    ◦ Sociology guides many of our life-shaping laws and policies.
    ◦ Using a sociological perspective leads to important personal growth and awareness.
    ◦ Studying sociology aids in the preparation for the world of work.
  • Applying the Sociological Perspective: Sociology and Public Policy
    ◦ Sociologists shape public policy in countless ways
    ◦ What examples can you identify?
  • Applying the Sociological Perspective: Sociology and Personal Growth
    ◦ The sociological perspective
    ◦ Helps us assess truth of common sense
    ◦ Helps us see opportunities and constraints
    ◦ Empowers us to be active participants in society
    ◦ Helps us live in a diverse world
  • Applying the Sociological Perspective: Careers
    ◦ The “sociological advantage”
    ◦ Sociology is excellent preparation for jobs in dozens of diverse
    fields (American Sociological Association, 2002, 2011a, 2011b).

Chapter 2: Culture and New Media

  • Culture is
    • Society's entire way of life
    • No particular way of life is natural to humanity even though most people around the world view their own behavior that way
  • Culture shock
    • Disorientation due to inability to make sense out of unfamiliar way of life
    • Often occurs with domestic and foreign travel
  • Kind of Culture: Cultural Relativism
    • Is the idea that a person's beliefs, values and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another
    • More accurate understanding
  • Types of culture
    • Nonmaterial culture: The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society
    • Material culture: Tangible things created by members of society
  • Culture differences
    • All societies contain cultural differences that can provoke a mild case of culture shock
    • This woman traveling on a British subway is not sure what to make of the woman next to her, who is wearing Muslim full-face veil known as the niqab
  • Elements of culture:
    • Symbols
      • Human transform elements of the world into symbols
      • Symbols are anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
      • Societies create new symbols all the time
      • Meanings vary within and between cultures
    • Language
      • Language is a system of symbols that allow people to communicate with another
  • Values and Beliefs
    • Values
      • Broad guidelines for social living: values support beliefs, culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness and beauty
    • Beliefs
      • Specific statements people hold to be true
      • Matters individuals consider to be true or false
  • Values sometimes conflict
    • Sometimes one key cultural value contradicts another.
      • Value conflict causes strain.
      • Values change over time
    • Cultures have their own values.
      • Lower-income nations have cultures that value survival.
      • Higher-income countries have cultures that value individualism and self expression
  • Norms: Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
  • Mores: Widely observed and have great moral significance
  • Folkways: Norms for routine and casual interaction
  • Guilt: A negative judgement we make about ourselves
  • Shame: The painful sense that others disapprove of our actions
  • Culture: What is
    • Ideal culture
      • Way things should be
      • Social patterns mandated by values and norms
    • Real culture 
      • Way things actually occur in everyday life
      • Social patterns that only approximate cultural expectation
  • Material Culture
    • Includes a wide range of physical human creation or artifacts
    • Contains artifacts that partly reflect underlying cultural values
    • Reflects a society's technology or knowledge used to make a wat of life in particular surroundings
  • Standard of beauty
    • Including the color and design of everyday surrounding
    • Vary significantly from one culture to another 
  • Cultural Diversity: Many Ways of Life in One World
    • Many cultural patterns are readily available  to only some members of society
    • High culture: Cultural patterns that distinguish a society' elite
    • Popular culture: Cultural patterns that are widespread among society's population
  • Cultural Diversity: Subculture
    • Subcultures involves difference and hierarchy
      • Subculture
        • Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of society's population
      • Counterculture
        • Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
  • Cultural Change
    • Cultural Integration
      • Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system
    • Culture log (Ogburn 1964)
      • Uneven change of cultural elements that may disrupt a cultural system
      • A common societal phenomenon due to the tendency of material culture to evolve and change rapidly while non-material culture tends to resist change and remain fixed for a longer period of time
  • Culture changes in three ways
    • Invention
      • Creating new cultural elements
      • Telephone or airplane
    • Discovery
      • Recognizing and better understanding something already existing
      • X-rays or DNA
    • Diffusion
      • Spread of cultural traits
      • Jazz music or much of the English language
  • Ethnocentrism: Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
  • Cultural relativism: Practice of judging a culture by its own standards
  • Function of Culture: Structural Functional Theory
    • Views society as a complex, interconnected system
    • Culture functions as the structure in society that exists to meet human needs
    • Values are core of a culture
    • Every culture has cultural universals
  • Inequality and Culture: Social-Conflict Theory
    • Social conflict
      • Cultural traits benefit some members of the expense of others
      • Cultural values of competitiveness and material success are tied to our country's capitalist economy
    • Evaluation
      • Understates the ways cultural patterns integrate members into society








•The Birth of the Social Self

• Socialization

• Total Institutions and Resocialization

• Social Interaction in New Media

Chapter 4: Social Class and Inequality

• Stratification in Traditional and Modern Societies

• Sociological Building Blocks of Social Class

• Class and Inequality in New Media: Dimensions and Trends

Chapter 5: Race and Ethnicity in New Media

• Minority and Dominant Group Relations

• Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Chapter 6: Gender and Society

• Concepts of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

• Gender and Society in New Media

• Gender Issues in New Media

Chapter 7: Families and Society

• Millennials and Marriage

• Family Engagement and New Media

• Families Yesterday and Today

Chapter 8: Education and Society

• Education in New Millennial

• Theoretical Perspectives on Education

• Education, Opportunity, and Inequality

Chapter 9: Social Movements and Social Change

• Social Movements in New Media

• Sociological Perspectives on Social Change

• Sources of Social Change

• Social Movements

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