SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Fact
5 Feb 2018
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Sociology the study of human groups and societies, giving particular emphasis to analysis of the industrialized world. Sociology is one of a group of social sciences, which include anthropology, economics, political science, and human geography. His study of suicide led him to stress the important influence of social factors, qualities of a society external to the individual, on a person"s actions. Durkheim argued that society exerts social constraint over our actions. Marx: the main dynamic of modern development is the expansion of capitalism. Rather than being cohesive, society is divided by class differences: marx believed that we must study the divisions within a society that are derived from the economic inequalities of capitalism. Weber: the main dynamic of modern development is the rationalization of social and economic life, weber focused on why western societies developed so differently from other societies. Power is a pervasive element in all human relationships.
