1. SOCIOLOGICAL FINDINGS VERSUS COMMON SENSE TRUE/FALSE The earnings of U.S. women have just about caught up with those of U.S. men. When faced with a natural disaster such as floods and earthquakes, people panic and social organization disintergrates. Revolutions are more likely to occur when conditions remain bad than when they are improving. Most people on welfare are lazy and looking for a handout. They could work if they wanted to.

2. Compared to men, women touch each other more while they are talking to one another Compared to women, men maintain more eye contact while they are conversing. The more available alcohol is, the more alcohol- related injuries and fatalities occur in the U.S. highways. Couples who live together before they marry usually report higher satisfaction with their marriages than couples who do not live together before they marry.

3. The reason that people discriminate against minorities is prejudice; unprejudiced people don’t discriminate. Students in Japan are under such intense pressure to do well in school that their suicide rate is about double that of U.S. students.

4. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY Most of us see the world in terms of the familiar features of our lives. Sociology Takes a much broader view of why we are as we are, and why we act as we do. Teaches us that what we regard as natural, inevitable, good or true may not be such.

5. Helps understand the complex ways in which our individual lives reflect the contexts of our social experience. A sociologists is someone who is able to break free from the immediacy of personal circumstances and put things in a wider context.

6. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Sociological perspective: opens a window onto unfamiliar worlds and offers a fresh look at familiar worlds. gain a new vision of social life. asks, how are people influenced by their society- a group of people who share a culture and a territory.

7. Seeing the general in the particular Seeing the strange in the familiar seeing individuality in social context