SOC 656 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
20 Jan 2016
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What is sociology: the study of society (grouping of people, studies the interplay between agency (ability of individual to act) and structure (social limits) Emergent in its procedures and criteria rather than fixed and measurable inductive rather than deductive idiographic(makes a picture, research that creates description, often specific description) rather than nomothetic (looks to establish rules or laws, interpretive rather than causal. Do clothes make us human: only species that has dress, integral, one of only things that humans do specifically, abraham maslow"s hierarchy of human needs, 1943. Visual representations of religions, cultures, and ethnicity. Classical perspectives (foundation theories of how society works when sociology was established as academic discipline): structural functionalism. How these roles make society happen, functioning society= everyone playing their part in system. Interested in structure, not agency: conflict theory, symbolic interactionism. Society is not structured, does not function, but made of constant, fluid, fight between haves and have nots.
