SOCL 2001 : EXAM 1 NOTES
Document Summary
Legal system, labor market, educational system, military (total), & family. Sociology is the study of human society; complex. The function of sociology as of every science, is to reveal that. Social structure = intanglible, but holds something up. Sociology imagination = (c. wright mills) argued that biography & Using sociology imagination = make the familiar strange, question. Social institution = networks of structures in society that work. To socialize the groups of people within them. Social identity = the way individuals defines themselves in. Relationship to groups they are a part of (or in a relationship to. They choose not to be a part of) Auguste comte = tried to make sociology a science. Positivism or social physics: idea that society can be studied. Needed to make moral sense of society as religious authority. Comte"s 3 historical epistemological stages: theological stage, metaphysical stage, scientific stage. Harriet martineau = first to translate comte"s works to english.
