Blogging through Invitation to Sociology (2020)

I think it was a very useful class because I could learn about various fields of sociology while taking this class. I only knew vague things about sociology, but I think I got closer to sociology through this lecture, and I was able to think based on the theories I learned in class when I watched the news or looked at social phenomena. As a major in the same social field, I was able to build up a lot of knowledge and feel common denominator with the economy. And the best thing was to look at the Wikipedia data on social studies every week and organize my thoughts and articles. At first, it was a bit hard because I couldn't adjust to the assignment, but as I got used to it, I was able to apply what I learned about social phenomena and think about it one more time, so I felt very meaningful. I think I have a little bit of sociological imagination and perspective that I can think about socially no matter what happens in the future. And as I learned, I felt that sociology was really...

1. Summary The new area of research in social science focuses on technologies including mobile phones, video games, virtual worlds, social network services and digital media. Technology is a collection of skills, methods, or processes used to achieve goals, such as the production of goods or services or scientific research. A well-known example of this is cell phones. Cell phones have changed people's social lives a lot, and people have become very dependent on them. And while social networks have many advantages, such as developing business networks or keeping in touch with friends and family members who live far away, the criticism that flattened social networks provides a history of unpleasant behavior that can cause problems in life. And there's inequality on social networks, just like in the general world. Examples of this are gender inequality, and a recent study found that women who posted sexually explicit Facebook profile photos were less physically attractive, so...

1. Summary Demographics is a study of human demographic dynamics. These include studies of population size, structure, and distribution, and how the population changes over time due to birth, death, migration, and aging. And demographic analysis can relate to the entire society or to small groups defined by criteria such as education, religion, or ethnicity. The reason for studying demographics is that sociologists should first use demographic indicators for possible explanations before proposing complex theories to explain social phenomena at a macro or social level. Demographic analysis is the most powerful tool for explaining various sociological phenomena. Demographics rely primarily on large datasets derived from census and registration statistics. Developing trends in demographic indicators, such as birth and mortality, requires a large set of long-term data. Because demographics are interested in population change, demographers focus on specific indicators of change. Two ...

One of the most representative examples of gender-based cultural symbols we can think of is toilet signs. There are two main types of gender-based cultural symbols that appear on toilet signs. The first is color. The color of the women's restroom sign is pink and the color of the men's restroom sign is blue. Few people question this color and it is common, so when you look at the sign from afar, you can tell whether this is a women's or men's room. Therefore, it is a cultural symbol of gender. The second one is the costume. The picture of the women's restroom sign looks like a skirt and the picture of the men's restroom sign shows that they are wearing pants. Not only women can wear skirts, but men can wear skirts, too. Because gender-less looks are popular these days, you can also find men in skirts. However, skirts look like this because they have long been worn by women and the idea that they are for women is fixed. That's why it's a gender-based c...

Usually, toys are distinguished between toys that girls play with and toys that boys play with. It can be distinguished by its appearance and purpose, but what can be distinguished conspicuously is its color. Usually, boys' items or toys have many colors such as blue and green, and girls' items or toys have many pink and yellow. It seems that it has become common in modern society to distinguish women from men by color since they were so young, and this is the effect of familiarity that allows them to accept the distinction between men and women when they grow up. And for girls, toys like dolls and house games are sold a lot, and boys are sold a lot of dynamic toys such as Lego, ball, and top. But you have to know that this is only universal and not all children do. Toy sellers should market with these considerations, but I think they should consider both sexes by changing toys that girls can play with, such as balls and Lego, that boys and girls can play with.

Men and women have slightly different roles expected at home and at work. Women's roles in the family are expected to be self-reliant, whether they are working or not. Usually, cooking, washing, and cleaning are shared with men, but they generally play a role in a lot of housework. And in the home, most men expect to play the role of head of household and be able to meet financial demands. Women and men do the same work in the workplace, but men are expected to work when they need the power to lift heavy things. And women do that because they are expected to play a more meticulous or detailed role than men. These seem to be social prejudices and customs deeply embedded in our society. Unlike what we expect by gender, I think we should look forward to it by looking at it in person, regardless of gender.

1. Summary Race is a physical difference in the human population that is thought to be different from one another in some way, either real or imagined. Racial classification is due to the idea of human biological classification, depending on the morphological features of the skin, such as its color or face. Race refers to ethnic, tribal, religious beliefs, shared language, shared culture, and shared traditions, which are race-related but not physical characteristics, but social characteristics shared by mankind. The biological definition of race has changed over time. And there were diseases that varied in frequency depending on race and ethnicity. The best way to understand race is to recognize the overlap of socially constructed boundaries and biological and genetic factors. However, the actual criteria used in racial classification are artificial and social, as shown in the case of the United States and Brazil. Prejudice is to judge something beforehand. Prejudice involves ma...

1. Summary Sociologists distinguish the same meaning, Gender and Sex. "Gender" means a social position recognized or predicted by a person within a culturally established name between masculine and feminine behavior. Gender is a socially constructed interpretation of human behavior patterns. However, "Sex" means the allocation of individuals to socially structured categories based on genetic and biological foundations generally recognized by medical, religious, family or government authorities. Sex is divided into men and women and defined as sex in which women produce larger gametes. There is a biological difference between men and women. However, it is not yet known how or why these differences occur. And gender differences generally vary by society, environment, historical situation and culture, indicating that these are social constructions. For example, in a workgroup situation in the United States, men tend to focus on challenges while women tend to focu...

1. Summary Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are generally distributed unevenly through allocation norms, causing specific patterns along the lines of people in socially defined categories. Social inequality is a discriminatory preference in approaches to social goods in a society caused by power, religion, kinship, reputation, etc. Social inequality is found in almost every society and can be classified as an equal society, a ranking society, and a stratified society. An equal society is a community that advocates social equality through equal opportunities and rights and is free from discrimination. A hierarchical society is an agricultural community that is grouped hierarchically from a chapter that appears to have a status in most societies. And a stratified society is a society that is horizontally classified into the upper, middle, and lower classes. And the types of social inequality can be divided into five categories: wealth inequality, treatment...

1. Summary Social stratification means the classification of a society that groups people based on socio-economic factors such as wealth, income, race, education, gender, occupation and social status, or power. Therefore, stratification is the relative social position of a person within a social group, category, geographic area, or social unit. However, the concept of social metering is often used and interpreted differently within a particular theory. And there are four principles in the social class. First, social stratification is socially defined as the assets of society, not as individuals in that society. Second, social stratification is reproduced from generation to generation. Third, social stratification is universal but variable. Fourth, social stratification includes qualitative beliefs and attitudes to social status as well as quantitative inequality. The social status variables underlying social stratification are based on the social perception and attitude of peop...

I think the impact of the environment is more important than individual behavior. I think people are more affected by the environment than by nature or individual behavior from birth. So I think it is important to make friends because it is affected by the environment. No matter how well an individual tries to behave, it will be difficult to do the right thing if the surroundings are not accurate. And today we are very much exposed to the media. I think the reason why adults don't try to show violent movies or abusive scenes to their children when they are young is because they are greatly influenced by their surroundings. Because we are not living alone, we are greatly affected by the surrounding environment. That's why we should always have our own opinions and try to be influenced better than bad by our surroundings.

1. Summary Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective commonly used in micro-social descriptions of social interactions in everyday life. A dramatic view is one of several sociological paradigms separated from other sociological theories because it analyzes context rather than investigating the causes of human behavior. So there is a conflict in sociology between the view of Dramaturgy as a theory and the view of the sociological paradigm. To identify its performance, there are seven important factors that Goffman proposed. In this analysis, teams are individual groups that work together to share a 'party line' and the steps represent three areas where you can find multiple individuals with different roles and different information. The steps are divided into three stages: front, rear, and outer. And we have to keep the audience from getting information in many performances, and some special roles are created to do this. Roles can be divided into three groups. The first r...

1. Summary Symbolic interaction is a sociological theory that suggests people's use of certain dialects to develop from practical considerations and to produce images and normal meaning for connection and communication with others. Repetitive interactions between individuals help us understand how society is preserved and created. Because individuals act on the premise of a common understanding of meaning within the social context, interactions and behaviors are organized through the common meaning that objects and concepts are attached to them. Most symbolic interactionists believe that physical reality actually exists by individual social justice and that social justice has evolved in relation to something real. This means that humans exist in an object-only world, not in a physical space composed of reality. And social interaction has three premises. First, humans act toward things based on their meaning. Second, the meaning of such things stems from or arises from socia...

Conflicts in roles can always occur in any country because it has different roles for different ages. When you are a teenager, the role of students and children is clear, and in your 20s, you can have various roles such as students, children, parents, and office workers. However, there is an example of an escalating conflict of roles in Korean society and a universal one. An example of that is the role conflict of women with children. In Korea, the role of women to care for and raise children is becoming more common, and there are expectations that women would like to raise their own children. That's why women of that generation are deeply conflicted about the role of mothers and office workers. It would be nice if you could harmonize your self-realization with the role of an office worker to make money, but since both are difficult to perfect, there seems to be a lot of tension or conflict in the role at this time. If it was in Korea before, people often quit their jobs and take...

1. Summary Social networks refer to learning social interaction as a set of social structures. The analysis of social networks is essentially a cross-disciplinary discipline and comes from social psychology, sociology, statistics and graph theory. Social network analysis is now one of the main paradigms of modern sociology and is used in many areas. Social networks can be distinguished by their level of analysis. The first is micro-level analysis, an analysis that begins with a small group of individuals at a micro level. There are types of micro-level analysis, which are Dynamic level, Tread level, Exter level, and Subset level. The second is the meso level. The method level generally begins with the population size between the micro and macro levels. And it's less dense and can show a different causal process than interpersonal micro-level networks. The third is the macro level. This does not track interpersonal interactions, but rather tracks the consequences of interactio...

1. Summary A social structure is a pattern of relationships between different entities or groups or a continuous and relatively stable relationship. And the social structure emphasizes the concept that the function, meaning, or purpose of a society is grouped into other structurally related groups or role sets. There are three distinct social structures. The first clear entity or group relationship. Second, social system participants maintain behavioral patterns of each other. Third, institutionalized norms or cognitive frameworks that make up the behavior of actors in the social system. The social structure can be divided into micro-organisms and macro-socials. A microstructure is a pattern of relationships between the most basic elements of social life, no longer divided and no longer has its own social structure. And the macro-structure is a kind of "second level" structure, a pattern of relationships between objects with their own structures. This social structure...

I used to think that pink is a color that suits women and blue is a color that suits men. So, when we give a child's clothes or items as gifts, we often give the girl pink clothes or items that have the feeling of a princess, and the boys give the boy blue clothes or items that have the feeling of a prince. And when there is a sign that distinguishes men's and women's bathrooms, you can see that women's bathrooms are painted pink and men's bathrooms are painted blue. These things have been around in our lives since we were too young, so we got used to them, and as we grew up, we learned that they were stereotypes about sex. In fact, pink is not the color of women or girls, but the color of everyone who likes it. I used pink a lot as a symbol of women, so it looks like a color related to women, but when I looked at it with adult eyes, I found out that there were many men who liked pink clothes and liked pink, and I thought I should throw away the stereotypes relate...

In Korea, there is a saying that "two heads are better than one person." This proverb means that no matter how easy it is, it is much easier to do a lot of work. As the saying goes, working together makes easy things much easier and difficult things can share pain together, so you cooperate with others. And we learn to cooperate with people at school because we work in social life and help and interact with each other. For example, when you become a college student, you will have a team project that is difficult to solve alone. Team projects can do well as they can make up for other team members' shortcomings and create synergy effects. Not everyone is so perfect that they cooperate with each other to help each other's shortcomings and make things easier. Especially in areas where creative ideas are needed, you can come up with better ideas if you combine them rather than thinking and doing things by yourself.

1.Summary Deviation is a violation of cultural norms, divided into official departures from official laws such as robbery, theft, rape, and murder, and informal deviations that violate informal social norms. These departures can vary considerably from culture to culture and are relative. The theories related to deviation include socialist typology, structural functionalism, conflict theory, and labeling theory. Socialism typology is a theory that divides the types of deviations into five categories, suitability, innovation, consciousness, retreat, and rebellion, depending on the individual's belief in individual motivation or cultural goals, and the method of achieving the goals. Structural functionism is said to be an important function of identifying social values and norms of members of society, claiming that heterogeneity plays an important role in society for many reasons. Conflict theory is a theory that shows how deviance reflects the imbalance of power. Finally, labelin...

1.Summary Socialization is a basic sociological concept composed of various elements. The goal of sociology is to prepare and perform roles, including impulse control and the development of conscience, career roles, gender roles and roles in institutions such as marriage and parents, and to live meaningful, important and valuable lives. In short, socialization is the process of preparing human beings to function in social life. And socialization is characterized by cultural relativity. Therefore, there are various social norms in the world. And socialization is an important sociological process in developing individuals who can function in human society, but it does not learn all aspects of human behavior. And socialization is a process of life, but it is generally divided into secondary socialization that takes place throughout a lifetime, meeting a new group that requires primary socialization and additional socialization. Socialization can distinguish broad socialization f...