SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Group, Reinforcement, Human Ecology

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

Document Summary

Berger sociology is a passionate curiosity - disciplined by scientific metholodology - about the interactions of people. Mills sociology studies is the intersection of biology and history (troubles/issues) to provide insight into both, especially how those social structure over which people have no control influence their lives. Mcginn sociology is the study of human groups: their origin, development, structure, function and significance for social life. Durkheim the study of the group (sociology) is more powerful in understanding human behavior than either biology or psychology. Weber ideal types - groups whose members share characteristics and can be studied as a single unit. Privilege (pg 7-8) either feel guilty or ignore it. You did not start or take it. The kind of good or bad that is attached to the privilege is not connected with the individual person but to the system as a whole. We are so focused on the individual and not as much on the system.