SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Perspectives, Pierre Bourdieu, Anomie
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* a systematic study of human society and social interaction. * different from common sense because common sense isn"t systematic, it is based on individual experience and is one sided, re ecting prejudiced/mistaken interpretations. * society is a large social group sharing the same geographic location and is subject to the same politics and cultural expectations. Structure vs agency: structures refer to pre-existing arrangements (ex. law, religion) that in uence our behaviors while agency refers to choices individuals make and how you interpret these structures and make decisions based on them; taking action on the structures. * the ability to see relationships between individual experience and larger society, enables us to distinguish between personal problems and public issues, connect personal problems to sociology and the public. * allows us to see the general in particular and the strange in the familiar due to socialization.
