SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Arapesh Languages, Eugenics, Digging Stick
4 Mar 2014
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Society consists of a group of people within a limited territory who share a common set of behaviours, beliefs, values, material objects, and social institutions that exist as a coherent system. Emile durkheim studied suicide and found patterns: men more likely than women, single/divorced more likely than married, city people more likely than country. Sociocultural system term for combination of society, social structure, and culture. Power the ability of an individual/group to carry its will even when opposed by others; hard to locate where it is and what it is. Proximal relations of power within personal relationship; easier to feel (parents, teachers) Public issues of social structure: many people in poverty. Key elements of science: knowledge must be based on empirical observation; data observed through senses. Information must be analyzed through logic and rational thought. Auguste comte one of first social theorists to apply scientific principles to social analysis; created term social science .
