SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Sui Generis, Altruistic Suicide, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

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

Document Summary

Socy 122 course notes including essay question on final. Society: the subject matter of sociology, it confronts us constrains us, different from individualist theories of economics and political science. Socialization: becoming part of the social group, imposes ways of seeing. Social facts: group habits, patterns, external to the individual, have coercive power. Holism: properties of a system cannot be determined by component parts alone, the system as a whole determines how parts behave. Sui generis: of its own kind, born into society, it exists before and after you. Division of labour: example of empirical indicator, people can become more tied to each other as the division of labour becomes more complex and we need each other to survive. Concentric circles: peter berger the walls of our imprisonment in history. Anomic suicide: not integrated, weak social regulation, dramatic changes social norms don"t correspond to individual goals. Concentric circles: (berger); everyone is located in concentric circles, each representing systems of social control.