SOCIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - High Culture, Central Tendency, George Herbert Mead
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Founded positivism which is an approach that assumes the methods of the natural sciences can be successfully applied to the study of social life. Believed that social facts are regular patterns of behavior that exist independently of individuals and constrain individual behavior. Did a study about suicide and how it related to social integration of individuals in the larger society. Believed in a change from mechanical solidarity of small communities to organic solidarity of which resembled cities. Structures > social consequences > society (and then society back structure/ loop) Example: families > socializing children > society. Born in germany but due to exile lived most of life in great britain. Industrial revolution influenced him along with inequality around him. Social change was the inevitable result of class conflict. Dialectic as a process of change of time based on the clash of historical forces seen as a thesis, antithesis, and a synthesis. Believed that human history is plagued with class conflict.
