SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Macrosociology, Microsociology, Group Dynamics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Sociology: the systematic study human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: the unique way in which sociologists see our world and can dissect the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. Macrosociology: attempting to understand society as a whole (marx, durkheim, weber)*** ex: economy, religion, large groups (investigation of rates of homelessness in large canadian cities) ), human interactions rather than larger structural realities, internal nature of individual. Macrosociology is often deductive, generating general principles, while microsociology tends to be inductive, deriving specific conclusions from abstract principles. Sociological imagination: developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces. Points to the ways your personal biographies are connected to larger things going on in the planet. (ex. how is getting sick connected to poverty?) The more expanded, the more trapped we feel. What you feel you need is a quality of mind.