Building blocks
The ability to connect personal troubles with social issues
What is Sociological Imagination?
Oversimplifications about groups of people
What are stereotypes?
Tribe with strange body rituals described by Horace Miner
Who are the Nacirema?
There is a reality, and we can know it
What is positivism?
Represent social structures in the driver’s metaphor
What are roads?
There is no reality; everything is socially constructed
What is strong social constructionism?
African writer who described his first encounter with the white people in his autobiography
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
Fake TV show involving fake electric shocks staged in this country
What is France?
Country of Thor Heyerdahl (the Anthropologist who sailed across the Pacific)
What is Norway?
Established patterns of interaction
What are social structures?
Harmful conditions that affect a large number of people in similar ways
What are social problems?
Shortcuts for decision-making
What is the heuristic method?
The author of the experiment involving electroshocks
Who was Stanley Milgram?
Our reality is constructed by people with power
What is critical theory?
Young fish are not aware of it
What is water?
The bear was constructed as a silly man wearing a fur coat and needing this cosmetic operation
What is a shave?
It only takes a few seconds to build one
What is prejudice?
All cultures are legitimate ways of interacting with the environment and with other people
What is cultural relativism?
Not as violent as we believe it was.
What is the old west?
The film “People Like US: Social Class in America” was released in this year
What is 2001?
If men define situations as real, they become real in their consequences
What is Thomas Theorem?
Stereotypes about black women
What are controlling images
The main character of this cartoon found something that didn’t belong
What is The Lost Thing?
Capacity of words to have multiple meanings
What is polysemy?
Creators of today’s social structures
Who are “dead people before us”?