SOC 1100 Midterm: Midterm Review - Soc 1100 (Chapters 1-4)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the particular sociologists identify general social patterns in the behaviour of particular individuals. Men more likely to commit suicide than women. People at the margins of social life are aware of social patterns that others rarely think about. The periods of change or crisis encourage us to use the sociological perspective. People began to move because they were looking for jobs, this resulted in people becoming different than the same. Everything and everyone works together to create a stable society. Auguste comte, emile durkheim (society and function), herbert spencer, and. Society will not change until we are unhappy. We are a product of our everyday interactions. Max weber (our society will change and grow based on rationality), george herbert. Mead, erving goffman, george homans and peter blau. Concept: a mental construct that represents some part of the world in a simplified form. Variable: a concept whose values change from case to case.