SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feudalism, Traditional Authority, Social Darwinism
21 Dec 2017
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Sociology seeks to disentangle complex relationships between ourselves and society. Social structure made up of institutions that organize, manage, and discipline our interactions. Culture is the content that fills up the structure. Power is achieve through the control of resources of value. Social interaction is mapped out according to statuses that we attain and roles that we occupy. Personal power reflects statuses and roles are values and rewarded. Status defines who we are and what we are in relation to others; our social identity. Status set: simultaneous statuses held by one person. To develop a systematic approach to investigating and e(cid:454)plaining (cid:862)the social(cid:863) Life is not random or arbitrary, nor is it pre determines or natural. Society as an organism to be studies scientifically. Learn how the social world is organized and constructed, and our role. Impacts upon social relation, new forms of power.
