SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Orthodox Marxism, The Sociological Imagination, Bobby Sands

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Killmurray

Document Summary

We must look systematically at the interplay among regimes, institutions, political opportunity structure and repertoires (tarrow and tilley***) The relationships between humans and the social organizations they inhabit. The interactions between humans and their social environment. Structural aspects of society are enduring patterns of social relations and institutions. Political systems, voting, or economic systems and taxation structures. Society is organized through these patterns within which individual and group action is carried on (attempt to reveal these enduring patterns) De ned as the the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Ex. tea : healthy, tradition, a drug (caffeine) - addiction, a social activity (meeting for tea) - no focus on the tea , One can examine tea drinking from a variety of theoretical perspectives. British working class staple of the 19th century reveals- team comes from india, sugar comes from jamaica, expensive, history of the british empire, british conquest,