SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 1
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Chapter 1 what"s sociology and how did it develop. 4 lsu football players get in a bar brawl, why is it important in louisiana: 10-15 million a game, it"s a business. Lsu wins local economy goes up, loses goes down: race the article pictured and highlighted two black people and left out other races like the white guy, example of sociological perspective. Sociological perspective and sociological imagination are pretty much the same thing, how we interpret what we see in reference to sociology. Sociology page 5 of textbook: scientific study of social relationships, social institutions, and society, same procedure as other sciences, social relationships: (micro, social institutions: government, family, education. Society was an organism evolving from simpler to complex form. Spencer: came up with the idea of social evolution (simple->complex, good friend of charles darwin, survival of the fittest, used some of their ideas but didn"t really continue.
