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What is Sociology?
It is the study of groups of people, social structure, and social institutions.
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
Who stated this quote?
Wright Mills
Sociology is focused on understanding the individual, while Psychology, like its name suggests it focuses on social groups, communities, and cultures.
False
From the topic discussed, give one type of Culture.
Popular culture
Consumer culture
Sports culture
Subculture and counterculture
Who is the Sociologist who analyzed French culture in terms of how important distinction from other social classes was?
Pierre Bourdieu
Sports culture pertains to the customs, behaviors, and values associated with interactive physical activities.
True
This Asserts that mass media is an industry, and is designed to indoctrinate and subordinate the masses or audiences into passivity and acceptance of the capitalist mode of consumption through our popular culture consumption.
Critical Theorist
These are consumers whose common social identities and cultural backgrounds inform their shared understandings of culture in patterned and predictable ways.
Interpretive communities
Popular Culture encompasses the widely shared ideas, practices, beliefs, images, and artifacts that are prevalent within a society at a given point in time.
True
What theory did Karl Marx Developed?
Conflict Theory
Who named the so-called Mechanical Solidarity?
Emile Durkheim
What are the Theories that see Popular Culture through different lenses?
Critical Theory, Functionalism, and Interactionalism