SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Depression, Social Fact, The Sociological Imagination

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

Document Summary

Sociology lecture #2: coined by auguste comte (1798-1857, study of all human experience, non-contractual element of a contract (durkheim) invisible agreement (social contract, sociology is about these relationships, exchanges, social orders (all invisible things between people, institutions, societies. The sociological perspective: taken for granted thinking, symptoms of our cultural contexts, sociological thinking. Etc: race/ethnicity, sexuality, social media, religion, the sociological perspective concepts, the social construction of reality, the sociological imagination, society as a product of human social interaction, social institutions, society and social facts, social class, socialization, culture. Society as a product of human social interaction the way in which we go about our everyday life is a result of how we have been socialized: we are socialized by interactions with parents, technology, friends, state. Etc: social interactions form the society we live in, everyday frames of reference, example 1: individualism. Individualism is often taken for granted: hobbes, locke, machiavelli challenged ideas that preceded individualism (such as.