SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Sociological Inquiry, Wage Labour, Social Inequality
3 Apr 2018
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Sociology is the study of human groups. Patterns in groups and people"s actions and how they vary across time, cultures, and social groups. Address social problems and make the world a better place. Difference common sense and systematic analysis of facts. Example: research on differences between men and women regarding talkativeness. Reorganizing social life and rapid social change. Social location: actions, life chances, and treatment of person or group of people due to their placement within the social structure. Also encompasses cultural elements of our lives: religious and political beliefs. Each of us has a unique social location. The intersecting number of larger social forces that affect individual"s lives and gives individual"s a unique understanding and perception of the world. Social structure: enduring patterns of behavior and relationships within a society that comes from interaction between groups, individuals, and social institutions.
