SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Norbert Elias, Anthony Giddens, Scientific Method
10 Apr 2016
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Usually used to designate country-level groups (canada, us, france etc. ) as well as subnational. How are boundaries important? (e. g. in canada, culture is going to be different for someone in winnipeg vs. montreal) Most sociologist use "society" for simplicity (which refers to a group of people, too general of a concept they try to avoid it) o. Most sociologists refer to sociology as the scientific study of social relations. A great variety of social relations o o. Several other disciplines also analyze social relations using empirical analysis: Anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology o o. Sociology is different from the above disciplines because of breath and focus. Broad view: sociology is the only discipline that analyzes all types and aspects of social relations (other disciplines = limited view) o. Economics, political science and anthropology are subsumed by sociology. Benefits: gives a different perspective able to see how all types of social relations are interrelated and influential, bigger picture o.
