Course Discussions
A historically and culturally variable relationship “in which one individual nurtures and cares for another."
What is mothering?
How much money a person makes, their social status, and the way they grow up impacts what types of things a person sees themselves doing for a job, how they view others, expectations, and ideas about intelligence.
What is socioeconomic status?
The subjective experience of everyday life.
What is reality?
The largest group on welfare in America.
What are women?
Wrote a book called The Social Construction of Reality, arguing that that society is created by humans and human interaction, which is called habitualization.
Who were Berger and Luckmann?
A universal emotional experience that is defined similarly in all cultures.
What is love?
The principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture.
What is language?
A reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world.
What is everyday life?
This country spends more money per student than any other Western country.
What is the United States?
A key figure behind the theory of symbolic interactionism.
An urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.
What is a food desert?
Where primary socialization typically occurs.
What are families?
The world you share with others – correspondence between my meanings and their meanings in this world that we share.
What is intersubjectivity?
The percentage of Muslims that actually live in the Middle East.
What is 20%?
A French sociologist who formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science.
Who was Emile Durkheim?
______ and learning are communal acts. They require a continual cycle of discussion, disagreement and consensus over what has been ad what it all means.
What is knowledge?
A wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior.
What is mental illness?
What is generally relevant and what is relevant only to
specific roles (dialectic between general and role-specific relevance).
What is social stock of knowledge?
Information about the Boston bombing was in large part the result of ____
What is collective intelligence?
A German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
Who was Karl Marx?
Whenever a person perceives himself as being obligated to another for a service.
What is a social debtor?
A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
What is emotion?
The process by which the externalized products of human activity attain the character of objectivity “this is how things are done".
What is objectivation?
Where Limon (the guest speaker from module 6) lived after her divorce.
What is a car?
American philosopher best known for his work on the nature of the self and intersubjectivity.
Who was George Herbert Mead?