SOCI 1002 Lecture : Sociological Overview.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1002
• Professor: Tamy Superle

Document Summary

Sociology helps us to understand social institutions practically everything is a social institution. Sociology is about looking past the individual and at social groups and society and their social institutions and how individuals act upon those systems. Sociology helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and our social worlds. The sociological imagination allows us to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Sociology helps us to see solutions to complex social problems. Social change significant alterations of social structure and cultural patterns through. Time; ever present, necessary (if we want to eliminate social inequality) Social movements collective attempts to change all or part of political or social order: Coordinates voluntary actions of non-elite members of society. Offers a program for changing the distribution of social goods. Many social movements are based on the idea of social justice. Marx proposed a recurring power struggle causing continual social change. Exits when groups do not have equal social status.