Course
Description:
- This course offers
students information and ideas with which to understand the social
factors of human life. It places the study of social interaction,
social processes, and social institutions in an historical context. It
examines the human condition with particular reference to work, to
culture, to personality, to ethnic, class and gender relations, as well
as economic and political institutions. (SSB110 is the bilingual
version of SSS100.)
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Assignments:
Assignment Reflection:
- I enjoyed this assignment because the topic was very
interesting, we had to compare the events of the past to today's
society. The essential question was why today Americans were not
rioting as they had in the 1960s, especially since their living
conditions have not improved much, and the country in some cases seems
to have gotten worse. The most challenging part of this assignment was
probably reading the article, because it was very long and had some
dense language. However, after settling down and reading it, I found it
to be very interesting and informative. My favorite part of the
assignment was identifying and analyzing some of the mechanisms of
social control, and I was surprised by what I found, because it seemed
that some of the most harmless and enjoyable things we loved were the
very things that were controlling us. This assignment, like all the
others in this course, help open my eyes to the underlying meaning of
the ways of society, and it helped me relate the past to my present and
future.
Course Reflection:
- This was
one of my favorite classes during the Spring semester, because it
taught me to read between the lines in society. I was able to relate
elements of philosophy to sociology, which helped me understand the
curriculum even more. I consider myself somewhat of a conspiricy
theorist, and this course was like my breeding ground- we touched on
some of the most difficult and rampant issues in society, and we were
able to relate most of them back to some sort of social control. I was
also able to use a lot of what I learned in class in my real life,
because the issues were that relevant, and the topics were that
interesting. Intro to Sociology is defintely one course I would
reccomend for any college freshman to take, if they are looking for a
fun, informational course.
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