SOCIOL 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter many: Albert Bandura, Anomie, Social Darwinism
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Sociology is the systematic study of the human society. Sociology investigates the causes and consequences at the personal level. For example, love, violence, conformity, deviance, personality, and interpersonal power. People are social beings by nature; babies are born depending on others for survival. The society in which they are raised in will determine their personalities and their perception. Social determinism, the assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors, is used to explain the idea that who we are and what we do is a product of our environment. Sociological imagination is the ability to see the societal patterns that influence individuals, families, organizations, etc. It is the willingness to view the social world from a different perspective. Sociology emerged in the late eighteenth century during the enlightenment; individuals believed that humans could solve their own problems and that society could be analyzed.
