SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Fact
24 Feb 2017
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Walking: walk on the sidewalks, interactions (smile, nod, get out of the way), stay towards the right. Driving: right side of the road, obey traf c laws, yield to pedestrians. Individuals and the social world mutually in uence one another. Found differences between countries, and groups within countries: catholics have a lower rate than protestants, men more likely than women. Interested in thin line between sanity and insanity. Gets himself committed to psychiatric hospitals. says he heard voices in his head. Longest anyone was held was 53 days, average was 19 days. Conclusion: line is not as clear as you may think. Wrote an article about how to become a marijuana smoker . The sociologist, then, is someone concerned with understanding society in a disciplined way The interest of the sociologist is primarily theoretical. People spend most of their lives in groups. Interactions between people and groups are reciprocal.
