SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Social Forces

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Jessica braimoh

Document Summary

The systematic study of human groups and their interactions (ravelli and. Sociology is a science - uses scientific methods to study. Sociologists explore the relationship between the individual and the social. Auguste comte- coined the term sociology in 1838 , the father of sociology. Sociologists answer questions about the social world. They theorize why this is the case through analysis of human interactions and societal structures in place. The social arises in people"s activities and through the ongoing and purposeful cocerting and coordinating of those activities. Social life is not chaotic but organized to happen as it does (campbell and gregor) Everything is not random - social forces and relations organize our lives and allow them to occur as they do. There is a lot of diversity in the approaches of sociologists, they do not all work in the same way to analyse sociological principles. The assumption that there is one true reality/way of knowing.