SOCI 250 Lecture 1: SOCI 250 COMPLETE LECTURE NOTES
29 Sep 2017
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Sociology: it is the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior: by scientific we mean the systematic knowledge gained through observation and experimentation. They are less likely to try and understand why the individual john. Society: it is any group of people living together and constituting a single, related, interdependent community. Basically, it is a group of people who are interconnected in some way. Culture: it is a series of learned aspects (e. g. language, religion, marriage, dating patterns, food, fashion, standards of beauty, etc. ) that we share. Let(cid:859)s t(cid:396)(cid:455) to disti(cid:374)guish the follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g te(cid:396)(cid:373)s: elite society: an interconnected group of affluent people. Social problem: it is a social condition or behavior that people view as harmful and requires collective action to remedy. People define social problems collectively: examples of social problems: poverty/unemployment, crime, inequality, discrimination,
