After reading Chapter One, you should be able to:
- Define sociology and examine the components of the sociological perspective.
- Explain the importance of a global perspective for sociology.
- Examine how social marginality and social crisis encourage people to use the sociological perspective.
- Identify and describe four benefits of using the sociological perspective.
- Identify and discuss three social changes especially important to the development of sociology.
- Identify and describe the three-stage historical development of sociology as a science.
- Discuss the importance of theory in sociology.
- Summarize the main assumptions of the three major theoretical approaches in sociology.
- Discuss the application of the three approaches to the sociology of sport.
- Define social interaction and identify its components.
- Distinguish between ascribed and achieved status and describe master status.
- Distinguish between role set, role strain, and role conflict.
- Discuss the extent to which reality is socially constructed.
- Explain the Thomas Theorem.
- State the purposes of ethnomethodological research.
- Outline the characteristics of Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis.
- Discuss the importance of nonverbal communication in human social interaction.
- Examine ways in which gender influences personal performances, including use of language.
- Examine the character of humor.
- Explain the major elements of social interaction by focusing on three dimensions of everyday life: emotions, language, and humor.
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