SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Social Fact, Microsociology, Scientific Management
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Connect personal trouble to broader public issues. Each society has constructed uniquely for every area. Things like body shape, beauty, health, cleanliness, manners are socially constructed ideas. People being able to follow unspoken rules. We are socialized to follow certain norms and expectations. Until the norms are broken is when the norms we know and follow unconsciously are unspoken. Emile durkheim and the study of social facts. When you are put in a role, you feel compelled to fulfill the role as the society you are in has designed it. Society is like a human body so everyone functions in. Everyone has a specific role/function so everyone relies on tandem each other. Conflicts, competition and struggles among different groups (economically) Not only economically, but also political struggles. Our society focuses a lot on economics and politics so they. Primarily bureaucratic in which tasks are supposed to be rationally both influence our lives allocated for maximum efficiency.