SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Forces, Welterweight, Quartile

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Becoming a sociologist involve learning that the taken for granted perspective we use everyday to understand the world is neither natural nor common to everyone. It also entails adopting a different core knowledge base that will equip us to think differently and to better confront challenges. Contemporary sociologists share a common core knowledge base. A core sociological knowledge base is a set of fundamental concepts, skills, and topics, available to all sociologists, that enable sociologists to think differently about the world. The sociological concept, like the concept we use on a daily basis and out of which we form our taken for granted understanding, draws heavily on the cultural concept in which they appear and are used. The sociological concept are deliberately constructed as tools to help sociologists re ect on the meaning and signi cance of the social world in which we live.