Ferris State University Course Syllabus Introductory Sociology (Spring 2013) Professor: Shahram Parastesh Office: ASC 2079 Phone: 231- 591- 2739 E- mail: Parasts@ferris.edu Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3–5 pm and Fridays 3-4 pm only by appointments Sociology 121 - Introductory Sociology: Mondays‚ Wednesdays and Fridays Course Description This course seeks to introduce the manners through which sociologists observe the world. Achieving this point of view
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Every nation’s government strives to create a system that maintains order in their community. Those who are in charge do not always make decisions that work to increase class equality‚ and as the rich become more powerful‚ the poor become more hostile. Class conflict is inevitable in society because everyone wants to have the same amount of access to the same resources‚ but in reality‚ this is not the case. An equal society is more likely to have an orderly population‚ but different classes of people
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• The Enlightenment in 18th and 19th century Europe was a movement focused on the primary source of authority and legitimacy. The work of thinkers Aguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Hebert Spencer‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber were all major influencers of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century on the development of sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical
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Application Assignment #1 1. What is the sociological imagination? This term‚ coined by sociologist C. Wright Mills‚ refers to looking at people’s behavior and attitudes in the context of the social forces that shape them. As Mills said‚ to understand our experiences in life‚ we must understand our historical time period and the social forces that are sweeping the period in which we live. What are personal troubles? Another way of saying this is that we want to understand how our personal
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1. sociology the study of human society 2. Who argued that in the effort to think critically about the social world around us‚ we need to use our sociological imagination to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history? C. Wright Mills 3. sociological imagination the ability to connect the most basic‚ intimate aspects of an individual’s life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces 4. social institution a complex group of interdependent
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Why Are People Capable of Committing Acts of Terror We are socialized right from the beginning. Socialization is the modification of an individual’s behavior to conform with the demands of social life. Once we are born‚ our society and culture already helps define certain aspects of ourselves. As we grow older‚ we assimilate more of the culture into our own identity. During this process‚ we also learn of moral values‚ what is right and wrong or how an action could only be appropriate in a certain
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fashion. Social scientists‚ philosophers and gender theorists present distinct understandings of the complexities of the fashion system. The modern definitions of fashion are derived from the foundational works of Bourdieu (1984)‚ Veblen (1899) and Simmel (1957)‚ who discussed fashion as a tool for social class distinction. Social class is just one element in the study of fashion in the 21st century‚ where gender‚ ethnicity‚ sexuality‚ and subculture affiliation play equally influential roles in the
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Cities: Explorations in Urban Geography How far is Urbanisation a way of life? The notion of a rural-urban dichotomy and a distinctive disparity between the utopian perception of ‘rural’ and the ‘anomie’ (Phillips and LeGates‚ 1981) of the city are ubiquitous themes throughout the urban sociological school of thought. Conflicting views between scholars concerning the reality of life in the city in addition to the correlation between ecological aspects of the city and sociological behaviour
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in dissociative processes. Like co-operation conflict is also regarded as a basic action. In this context A.W. Small says that conflict is the fundamental form of opposition oriented relationship and dissociative interaction. Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Rulf Dahrendorf have analysed the role of conflict in social structure. A.W. Green says that “Conflict is the deliberate attempt to oppose‚ resist or force the will of another or others.” According to Gillin & Gillin “Conflict is the social
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‘Most Tudor governments underestimated the threat presented by rebellions in England and Ireland.’How far do you agree? Tudor governments during the Tudor period dealt with rebellions in different ways‚ whether most governments underestimated the threat posed by them will be dependent on how well and effectively they reacted and responded to theses rebellions. Most Tudor Monarchs were either not prepared or faced the consequences of their most serious errors‚ however factors that will have to
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