SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Elective Affinities, Social Actions, Social Contract

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: G R Frank Pearce

Document Summary

Society is not a sum of individuals. Group develops its own logic: reaction is based on the group. Specific reality that has itself own characteristics. Group has their own logic: reality is external to individual. Social world only gives you access to certain things. Social order: some thing will work for you, and other things will not work for you, depending on your purpose. Interpretive science: why people do they are doing, how they are doing it. Conduct: meanings of why people do things. Certain practice are shared by different people, tracing a relationship. Subjects: people with particular values (weber) Initiated rationalism: our senses are deceived by illusions, we must use reason. Everything has its own quality: categories of things. Believed in natural place and natural motion: centre to the cosmos. Different kinds of beings require different sciences. Order is priority: without government, life is solitary, poor, you need a strong leader. Order needs coercion (someone being forced into leading)