SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tooth Fairy, The Sociological Imagination, Heterosexism
14 Oct 2017
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Challenging common sense assumptions about how the world works. The study of society- socius (being with others) ology (the study of) Henslin et al: simply put, sociology is the disciplined study of human social behaviour, especially the investigation of the origins, classifications, institutions, and development of human society on a global level (2010: 6). The systematic study of social behaviour in human societies (tepperman and. A large complex of human relationships (berger 1963, p. 9) Sociological thinking means being able to understand the difference personal troubles and public issues. Prof. davidson with her sister and her second cousin axel visiting from leipzig, germany, summer 1990. Peter berger (1963) the strange in the familiar . He says the sociologist"s job is to find the strange in the familiar. Ex: prof"s niece lost her first tooth. Very familiar thing that we can make strange. Tooth fairy is actually a weird concept if you think about it.
