SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Berlin Wall
11 Nov 2018
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Challenging common sense assumptions about how the world works. People are homeless because work ethics, addcitions, but looking at social structures we can see how addciton and unpemmplyemtn are broder social issues. Sociology: the study of society socius (being with others) ology (the study of) term coined by auguste comte (1798-1857) Wasn"t a fan of social revolutionn,was distressed b it (wull society ever be stable again) Science was emerging, gave him the idea that we can produce knowledge about our world, and measure them, opposed to listening to what people said is the truth (facts) 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. Using science and systematic tools to study societies. What is society? people are much more complicated than other animals.
