SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Georg Simmel, Protestant Work Ethic, Social Actions

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: William Flynn

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Society: group of people whose members interact, reside in a definable area, and share a culture. Sociology: the systematic study of society and social interaction. (cid:498)reasoned speech about companionship(cid:499). Culture: the group"s shared practices, values, beliefs, norms and artifacts. understand their own and others" pasts in relation to history and social structure. The capacity to see an individual"s private troubles in the context of the broader social relationships come to be thought of as (cid:498)things(cid:499) eg: when ppl say (cid:498)society(cid:499) Micro-sociology: the study of cultural rules of politeness in conversation. Focuses: social dynamics of intimate, face-to-face interactions. Macro-sociology: focuses on properties of large-scale, society-wide social interactions: the dynamics of institutions, classes, or whole societies. Sociological imagination (sociological lens/perspective): how individuals social processes that structure them. Reifications: the way in which abstract concepts, complex processes, or mutable caused an individual to do something or to turn out in a particular way. Figuration: concept that individual and society are inseparable.