Sociology Theories: Outline

1a}I am a white male. Because that is a trait I was ascribed at berth.
1b}I am a student; as a student I go to class do home work and fulfill my role as a student.
1c}I belong to a band. This is a group because we have the same interest and norms.
1d}I am my mothers son.
1e}I worked at Wane Dalton door. I had a walky talky. That showed I was in charge of line no one else had one.
2a}.Study the amount of people that play music in southern Ohio.
2b}"You will have to narrow the population, the target group you are going to study {Henslin,129}"
2c}My hypothesis is that 50% of people play music in southern Ohio. A survey would prove that.
2d}I would like to take surveys; because I can gather data from a large group of people.
3a}A society is based upon common culture and geographical location, while is based upon common beliefs and interest which they feel are important.
3b}A primary group is based upon intimate; long term face to face interaction and cooperation. A secondary group is based upon a more temporary,anonymous and larger then a primary groups.
3c} My family is a primary group and this sociology class is a secondary group In my life.
4a}The intent was to study the social connection on social networks.
4b} The concept that emerged was called the small world phenomenon or the six degas of separation.

5a}The dysfunction of this organization is lack of communication between units.
Because each unit is just transferring and not communicating at all.
5b}No Peggy's origination is not a bureaucracy, because it has no clear division of labor or hierarch. You can see this when you look at the office and see the mess and she just got passed around, anyone could be the manager.
6a} Workers are cut off from the fruits of there labor.
6b}You can start study groups to connect with others in a informal setting. To share frustration and or give approval.
6c}Anomie in a sense of normlessness and it comes from strain cased from trying to meet a goal you will never meet in society. Alienation is you are separated for from the end result of the work you are doing
7a}The rationalization of society brought the shift to thinking behaviors went from tradition to rationality and social organizations.

7b}Marx thinks capitalism changes a traditional society based on trade to capitalist one base on money. Weber thinks that religion was the reason for the shift because of the protestant work ethic which viewed material successes as spiritual success.
8a}One that could be described is differential associations, different groups we associate with we either learn to deviate or conform to that group. An example is if your friends do drugs you will probably do drugs to.
8b}Conflict theory states those in power try to keep power by the manipulation of laws and money. The ones in power can deviate from the law because they make the laws. Which can lead to a rebellion of the working class which deviation of the criminal justice system which the people in power use to control the working class.
8c}Strain theory can be used to understand deviance by outline four deviant paths that people react to. The stain they feel is between the goals they want and there ability to reach them in the stauncher of society they live in. the four are innovation, ritualism, retreatisum and rebellion
9a}How are crime and deviance are similar is that they are both violations in society.
Crime being a violation of law and deviance being a violation of any norms.
9b}Crime can be viewed as a norm in select groups. For example to not commit a crime would be a deviant act in gang.
9c}We socially construct deviance because different groups have different norms. Like being nude inn some cultures is ok but not in US mainstream culture.
10a}what deviance has to do with social norms is that it is a direct violation of norms in a society.It also destroys predictability and then in turn destroys social life.
10b}Tony’s family dose not expect him to go to school they want stay and run the family biasness. This attitude which is part of his culture because many peers also do not go to school.
10c}Tony rejected them because he went to school.
10d}Tonys took the ritualism path of deviance. He rejected his cultural goals of running the fruit stand and not going further in school. He exited the institutionalized means of becoming successful namely going to school and graduating.