SOCI 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Talcott Parsons, George Herbert Mead, Making Money
2 Nov 2016
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Sue rodriguez - wanted to commit assisted suicide as she was incapable of doing it herself: she went to court and they declined her right to die with dignity. Are you suited to the study of sociology: world taken for granted , things are not what they seem . Sociology - the systematic study of human society and social interaction: we blame society, but we are society. Society - a large social grouping that share geographical territory & is subject to same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Sociological imagination: c. wright mills (1916-1946, seeing the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society, personal troubles. Father of sociology (coined the term sociology) Strongly in uenced by upheavals of the french revolution: harriet martineau (1802-1876) Translation, women"s equality: hebert spencer (1820-1903) Survival of the ttest: emile durkheim (1858-1917) Father of functionalism: anomie, social facts, karl marx.
