SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Gender Role, Social Forces
24 Feb 2016
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Study of human groups & their interactions. Complex interconnections: wright mills (mills 1916-1962). Sociological imagination the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces influence individual lives. Social context of personal & public events. Psycho perspective depression is fixed thru antidepressants. Socio perspective social context is still there, although the individual can deal with it better. cheerful robots. People who are unwilling or unable to see the social world as it truly exists. Peter berger seeing the general in the particular look at seemingly unique events (particular) & recognize larger (general) features involved. Look beyond the obvious. seeing the strange in the familiar. These 2 are the cornerstone of the sociological perspective. Assumption that individuals have the ability to alter their socially constructed lives. (free will, choice, freedom) Network of relatively stable opportunities and constraints influencing individual behaviors. Who you are: key social factors: minority status e. g. ethnic minority, physical or mental disability, gay, lesbian, trans-gendered, gender role of patriarchy.
