Thursday, March 19, 2015

What is Culture - lee ye won (이예원)


In this week, we studied sociology so fast. We learned culture! It was so amazing. When the time goes by? I don’t believe that…. Anyway, let’s start my sociology cause story…

March 16th, we learned ‘theoretical perspectives’ and ‘Culture’(just little bit) That is many things. Structural functionalism, conflict paradigm, symbolic interactionism, and feminist paradigms and so on. Many kind of this, I was interesting in social network theory. Social network theory is beyond the structure and actors dychtomy, and focus on the analysis of the relationship between them. I watched a social network diagram displaying friendship ties between a set of Facebook uses. It looked like galaxy. I thought it was really nice thing that people communicated in internet freely and made their big data. We discussed that instructor in the classroom has the power to decide your grade how does this power inequality influence your behavior in the classroom?

Our team thought the attendance. We thought that if instructor doesn’t care about attendance, any students care about attendance.

March 17th, we learned more about ‘culture’, ‘Belief’ and subculture and deviance. Culture has many definitions. (It seems equal sociology. Many definitions – this is my personal thinking….) Turner said Culture is systems of symbols that human create and use to guide behavior, interaction and patterns of social organization. I thought it was nice definition. I was interesting in ‘subculture’. Subculture is a group of people within a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the large culture to which they belong. It is including university culture, punk style, and haker…. I thought it was independence thing. because they are characteristic each other. We discussed that “can we think of any examples how technology has changed our culture?” In 1970s our country, it was illegal that women wear miniskirt and men has long hair. This was our team subject. It’s really fun.

 

I want to quest many questions Pitor in the course. But I didn’t do that. Because It was really hard to understand the course. I really want to good at English… say good luck for me.

2 comments:

  1. 1. i think many different sociology theories can explane society in various view. So they can supplement each other. Just on theory can't explane all phenomenon of society.
    2.Inequality between teacher and students can affect in good way or bad way. Strong point of inequality between teacher and students is that teacher can have control of students easily so teacher can make student concentrate on classes. In other words, weak point of inequality is that students can lost their interest of class by pressure.

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  2. I also think social network theory is very interesting in terms of example of Facebook. About first topic I also thought because of power inequality in class students attend class and pay attention to teacher's lecture. And about second topic our group also thought mini skirt is now common different from past.

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