SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Consciousness, Social Fact, Blood Sugar

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

Document Summary

Not everyone was welcome to new ideas of free thinking. Structural functionalist lens: everything in the human body has a function just like every person has a function in society, emile durkheim: youngest of the family, father was rabbi, his theories were influenced by this. Society made of different instututions on importance of community rather than individual. Extend scientific rationality for the study of the social. Rationalist and positivist: definition of social fact, durkheim focuses on shifting basis of society. You start to make compromises: how society changed from village to urban. This transformation can exist without jeopardizing social intergration. Living in a smaller space can result in a different division: people in larger cities are dependent on others in different ways than those in smaller (slide 13, herbert spencer applied "survival of the fittest". Societies evolve the same way biological things do.