SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Evolution, Sexual Orientation, Symbolic Interactionism
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Sociology - the scientific study of society of social institution and social interaction or the systematic study of human society. Sociological perspective - seeind the general in the particular. Sociologists identify general patterns in the behavior of particular individuals. Society acts differently on various categories of people (children vs. adult, women vs. men) Large vs. small scale social interactions interpersonal interactions social interactions . Quantitative - analyzing sets of data such as human interactions. Humans should be productive; farming, making clothes from the wool. Owners of means of production and then there is everybody else; owners and workers. Non ri(cid:272)h people get exploited (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of . The conflict paradigm (model) - might be on exam. The discipline of sociology should be understood as the study of social facts. Patterns of human behavior - cultural norms, values, and beliefs - exist as established structures. Indicators of the nature society has integrated into.