SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Talcott Parsons, Commodity Fetishism, George Herbert Mead
17 Nov 2016
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Sociology social theory: abstract general ideas that help organize and make sense of the social world. All very interested at living at a time where the industrial revolution was happening. Social networks are also affected, fear of crime. Industrial revolution lead to big patterns of urbanization. Large studies of different groups of people in tunisia and social patterns. Follower of compte and was a positivist. Developed the concept of the social fact. Pre-industrial industrial ways of life and what that meant for society. High dynamic density/ different people, different views, different wants and opinions. Analogy of human body: all different organs, do different things, but all interdependent. Low degree of labour specialization/ most people do similar jobs helps social solidarity. Less conflict between people, similar world views, opinions, thoughts. Literally, without norms is a situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness. There are no clear norms or values to guide and regulate behaviour.
