SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Relation, Nationstates, Scientific Revolution
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Sociology: is the systematic study of human behavior in social context. Mesostructured: patterns of social relation in organization that involve people who are not intimately acquainted and who often don"t interact face to face (eg. colleges, government bureaucracies) Microstructures: patterns of social relation formed face-to-face interactions (eg. families and friend cliques) Global structures: patterns of social relations that lie outside and above the patterns of social relation that lie outside and above the national level (eg. economic relation among countries and patterns of the worldwide travel and communication) Sociological imagination: the quality if mind that enables one to see the connection b/w personal troubles and social structures. Example corporations moving manufacturing industries to low-wage countries (mexico and china) Programs the retrain fir skilled job that are in demand. Government programs are less generous and economic inequality is higher. There were three revolutions that pushed people to think in an entirely new way.