SOCI 102 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
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two main ideas of The Sociological Imagination (Mills) Ans✓✓✓1. An
individual's personal's troubles and public issues in a society can be
linked together through the sociological imagination
2. individuals can only understand their own experiences fully if they
locate themselves within their period of history
Mills makes the distinction between: Ans✓✓✓a) personal troubles:
individual problems
b) public issues: social problems
it's important that we define something as a personal trouble or a public
issue so that we can decide on a solution (personal/societal)
mills makes a distinction between: Ans✓✓✓2. history and biography
"neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be
understood without understanding both"
why is it important to understand history?
ex: racism in the US
- in order to understand present racism, you have to understand past
racism (slavery, discrimination, etc.)
- we can learn from the past
people create history and are created by history.
,ex: Nelson Mandala shaped history, but was also shaped history
if he did not exist, someone else would have led another movement
ex: university attendance over time
what are some elements of your family biography that explain why you,
your parents and your grandparents attended university (or did not)?
- if your parents/grandparents went to university, you're more likely to
go because of expectations, pressure and advice they give you
- wealth --> before, only people who were rich could only go to
university
how are we shaped by society
society as: Ans✓✓✓1. structured options
2. social rules
3. social resources
1. structured options Ans✓✓✓society structures our options and the
alternatives available to us
ex: like a menu, we choose what we want but we cannot choose what is
on the menu
- people choose but don't choose the options that are available to them
- options vary depending on where/who you are
ex: living in an ethnically homogenous neighbourhood creates and limits
options
- friends you'll make
- attitudes toward groups
,- knowledge of other ethnicities/cultures
ex: going to UBC creates/limits options for
- job opportunities
- job connections
- skills/knowledge you have
- marriage partners
2. social rules Ans✓✓✓society sets rules to live by (spoken and
unspoken)
a) rules of public order
b) rules of conversation
c) rules of dress
- men cant wear dresses
- women cant be topless
3. social resources Ans✓✓✓rules constrain us, but they allow us to do
things too
how do they help us?
- we can interact better (waiting for the person to finish their sentence)
- makes things fair (how different people get paid, allocating grades)
- protect the rights of people --> helps society function (majority
shouldn't make rules that only benefit them and not minorities)
- it would be chaotic without rules (ex: rules of driving)
, - allows us to meet new people (rules of etiquette, meeting people and
entering new situations)
high culture vs popular culture Ans✓✓✓high culture: culture of the elite
in a society
ex: opera, shakespeare, ballet
popular culture: culture of the masses
ex: harry potter, hip hop.street dancing
- accessible for everyone, easy to understand
ex: pride and prejudice (high culture) but zombies (popular culture)
is society the same as culture? Ans✓✓✓- they overlap
culture: way of life of a social group (traditions, habits, practices)
- made of material elements (books, furniture, art, etc. and non-material
elements (ex: rules, beliefs, values and customs)
culture and differentiation
1. distinct culture emerge in groups that are socially segregated
(subcultures)
ex: youth culture forms as a part of schooling (age-grading reinforces)
subculture: vegetarianism
- ideals: should respect animals
- ideals: do not consume animals/by-products
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!
two main ideas of The Sociological Imagination (Mills) Ans✓✓✓1. An
individual's personal's troubles and public issues in a society can be
linked together through the sociological imagination
2. individuals can only understand their own experiences fully if they
locate themselves within their period of history
Mills makes the distinction between: Ans✓✓✓a) personal troubles:
individual problems
b) public issues: social problems
it's important that we define something as a personal trouble or a public
issue so that we can decide on a solution (personal/societal)
mills makes a distinction between: Ans✓✓✓2. history and biography
"neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be
understood without understanding both"
why is it important to understand history?
ex: racism in the US
- in order to understand present racism, you have to understand past
racism (slavery, discrimination, etc.)
- we can learn from the past
people create history and are created by history.
,ex: Nelson Mandala shaped history, but was also shaped history
if he did not exist, someone else would have led another movement
ex: university attendance over time
what are some elements of your family biography that explain why you,
your parents and your grandparents attended university (or did not)?
- if your parents/grandparents went to university, you're more likely to
go because of expectations, pressure and advice they give you
- wealth --> before, only people who were rich could only go to
university
how are we shaped by society
society as: Ans✓✓✓1. structured options
2. social rules
3. social resources
1. structured options Ans✓✓✓society structures our options and the
alternatives available to us
ex: like a menu, we choose what we want but we cannot choose what is
on the menu
- people choose but don't choose the options that are available to them
- options vary depending on where/who you are
ex: living in an ethnically homogenous neighbourhood creates and limits
options
- friends you'll make
- attitudes toward groups
,- knowledge of other ethnicities/cultures
ex: going to UBC creates/limits options for
- job opportunities
- job connections
- skills/knowledge you have
- marriage partners
2. social rules Ans✓✓✓society sets rules to live by (spoken and
unspoken)
a) rules of public order
b) rules of conversation
c) rules of dress
- men cant wear dresses
- women cant be topless
3. social resources Ans✓✓✓rules constrain us, but they allow us to do
things too
how do they help us?
- we can interact better (waiting for the person to finish their sentence)
- makes things fair (how different people get paid, allocating grades)
- protect the rights of people --> helps society function (majority
shouldn't make rules that only benefit them and not minorities)
- it would be chaotic without rules (ex: rules of driving)
, - allows us to meet new people (rules of etiquette, meeting people and
entering new situations)
high culture vs popular culture Ans✓✓✓high culture: culture of the elite
in a society
ex: opera, shakespeare, ballet
popular culture: culture of the masses
ex: harry potter, hip hop.street dancing
- accessible for everyone, easy to understand
ex: pride and prejudice (high culture) but zombies (popular culture)
is society the same as culture? Ans✓✓✓- they overlap
culture: way of life of a social group (traditions, habits, practices)
- made of material elements (books, furniture, art, etc. and non-material
elements (ex: rules, beliefs, values and customs)
culture and differentiation
1. distinct culture emerge in groups that are socially segregated
(subcultures)
ex: youth culture forms as a part of schooling (age-grading reinforces)
subculture: vegetarianism
- ideals: should respect animals
- ideals: do not consume animals/by-products
