SOC 111 Lecture 2: SOC111 Week 2 Lecture
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What is sociology : the scientific study of human behaviour, sociology analyzes why people : Feel the way they do: sociology examines the social context of behaviour cross culturally and historically. Improve the human condition by understanding why we think, act, and feel the way we do and what we can do about it. Sociology has a distinct way of looking at the individual and society. Sociologists argue that: human behaviour occurs in patterns (normative behaviour/expectations, human behaviour is predictable, patterns of these behaviours are products of social forces. There are three common sense understandings of behavior: biological perspective, pseudo-psychological, moralistic. Ex) gender roles are biologically determined: men are naturally more aggressive than women, women are naturally better at nurturing because of their biology. Margaret mead (1901-1978) (nature vs. nurture, eg. gender roles are biologically determined, eg. (nature vs. nurture, eg. gender roles are biologically determined, eg. men aggressive, women gentle/ child raisers)
