SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Ages, Social Change, Capital Accumulation

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

Document Summary

Theories in sociology are abstract, general ideas that help organize and make sense of the social world. One of the greatest philosophers of the middle age. Was the time of the industrial revolution. More complex society, everyone has a function in society. Analogy: body parts represent people, they are all interdependent, all have different functions that rely on each other. Ex of institutions that help society function: transit system, policing, education system, religion. Low dynamic density don"t see strangers that often. Durkheim called the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society the collective conscience (little 2014, 4. 2). Anomie: a situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness. No clear norms or values to guide and regulate behaviour (little. Anomie: social change where norms are unclear/ lawlessness. People are going with the flow, a lot of unsureity as to what"s happening and why it"s happening.