@article{Aronson_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Social Theory and Social Relations}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/social-theory-and-social-relations}, abstractNote={How do our individual experiences relate to larger social patterns? What are the processes and institutions that shape social relations and social inequalities? For example, how are gender, racial and class inequalities reflected and produced within our educational institutions? This course introduces you to the Social Relations field, and to the theories and methods social scientists use to make sense of our society. In this course, we will explore ways of uncovering the logic of social relations and learn some of the basic methods of analyzing and evaluating explanations of social problems. We will talk about how we know what we know, and how theory and method link together in our understanding of social relations. We also draw on social theory and research to help us understand social differences and inequalities. In particular, we will focus on how social scientists conceptualize race, class and gender as both aspects of social structure and individual experience. Will focus on how these dynamics play out in one major institution: the educational system. We will ask such questions as: how do we acquire particular social identities? How are these group identities and social positions shaped by inequalities in social structure? And what is the effect of educational institutions in this process?}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Aronson, Pamela}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }