SOCI 2220H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dreyfus Affair, Auguste Comte, Social Inequality
29 Jan 2019
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Theories of inequality durkheim and structural functionalism. The life of durkheim: born in france, strong religious family influence, sought a society that could integrate liberalism (individualism), radicalism (social justice) and conservatism (moral order, strong academic bordeaux, sorbonne, activist dreyfus affair, first world war. The rules of sociological method: establishment of sociology as a discipline. Suicide: example of his method of conducting sociology, attempt to understand variations in the rates of suicide. The division of labor in society: what holds society together, solidarity. The elementary forms of religious life: study of totemism, general theory of religion. Sociology as the science and study of social facts: august comte and scientific method of studying the social. Social solidarity and moral regulation: changes as society changes. Society as a bound collectivity: form of solidarity correlates to the type or form of society (changes) Moral regulation: = rules or norms that govern human conduct.
