SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dalton Conley, The Sociological Imagination, Social Forces

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

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Sociology: the systematic study of social behaviour and human groups. There are 100 different ways of organizing a classroom but why do we organize it the way it is. (textbook) telling the story of the deli clerk, a(cid:272)(cid:395)uai(cid:374)ta(cid:374)(cid:272)es of o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)othe(cid:396), pa(cid:396)t of ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)"s e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)da(cid:455) life, a(cid:374)d deli (cid:272)le(cid:396)k (cid:449)as (cid:373)u(cid:396)de(cid:396)ed, p(cid:396)o(cid:373)pti(cid:374)g le(cid:373)e(cid:396)t to reflect on a whole bunch of questions. Personal stories are not merely personal - they are structured. Sociologies: the logics of social things: what is the relationship between the story he tells and what comes after is a key question to be considered. Stories are a powerful way of connecting the personal aspect and the social world. Theory: an attempt to explain events, forces, materials, ideas or behaviours in a comprehensive manner. Predictive, explanatory, understanding: a theory may help us see relationships among seemingly isolated phenomenon, a theory in sociology may be different from a theory in physics.