SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microsociology, Islamic Extremism, Macrosociology
1 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Get notes from someone if you miss a class. The systematic study of human social behaviour, groups, and societies. Results: how one person deals with things affects the whole family. Research with focus on social interaction among individual people and groups. Hypothesis: as rural farmland -> rural, non-farm -> urban, then less contact with, less assistance from, and more conflicts with grandparents. Qs: past year, how often did you see your grandparent face to face> Hypothesis right, but context might change the reasons why this is true. Research with focus on broad social structures that characterize societies. Men make their own history, but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past karl marx. Social life includes a variety of ___ forces that structure our social context. Agency: what we can do or would think of doing. Culture: macro shapes goals, habits, and values (norms) (micro) shapes economics (macro) Made us think about sociology marx and vader.
