SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peer Pressure, Roch Carrier, Honor Killing

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Rules of sociological method identifiable, institutionalized patterns of action into which individuals are born. Sociology"s domain the study of a pre-existing, unique entity, comprised of. Become members of a society by internalizing the existing ways of thinking, feeling, and acting the norms (normal expectations/behaviours) of the society. social facts. individuals. The exact field of sociology embraces one single, well defined group of phenomena . A social fact is identifiable through the power of external coercion which it exerts upon act. One way starts to emerge to ultimately become the only way we are suppose to. Recognizes that not everyone is socialized - e. g. criminal. The presence of this power is seen in the existence of some pre-determined sanction, or the resistance to any individual action threatening it. Sociologists study social facts - ties society as a whole. Crystalized as particular ways of acting, thinking, feeling, social habits, customs,