SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Physics, Émile Durkheim, Academic Freedom
2 Apr 2018
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Origins and intention of sociology as a social science. Sociological imagination private troubles and public issues. Opposed centralized authority of church traditional authority and beliefs. Industrial revolution rise of capitalism, impacts upon social relations, new forms of power. To develop a systematic approach to investigating and explaining the social". Life is not random or arbitrary, nor is it pre-determined or natural. Society as an organism to be studied scientifically. Learn how the social world is organized and constructed and our role in said process. Social structure made up of institutions that organize, manage, discipline our interactions. Culture is the content that fills up the structure rules of engagement, norms, values, language relations of power ability to achieve your will despite resistance of others. Power is achieved through the control of resources of value. Markets, weapons, media, law, votes, workers, consumers and status, freedom, self determination.
