SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Social Theory, The Sociological Imagination

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Tonya Katherine Davidson

Document Summary

Challenging common sense assumptions about how the world works. Said to have coined the term sociology. Before the enlightenment people believed in the word of the clergy, then science happened . Sociology is using the logic of science to understand what society has produced. Sociology is the disciplined study of human social behaviour . A large complex of human relationships (berger 1963, p. 9) Relationships between personal troubles and public issues. Ex of sociological imaginations: black lives matter, police carding, unemployment, traffic, tuition. Is the moment when you realize your personal life is influenced by the broader unfolding of history. Biography and history intersect ex: berlin wall falls, families can see each other for the first time. Take one moment and see if it"s an isolated case. Each workshop gets a bonus mark (up to 4%) contact by: office hours, telephone, email ta and prof. Essays are in apa format focus on section 4. 2 in chapter 4.