PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Industrial Revolution

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Wright mills: critical in his writing about modern society and what capitalism does to society. Sociological imagination: recognizing the connection (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a(cid:374)y i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al situation on hand and the larger social forces (shapes our life chances) Patterns of social relations: theory and paradigm defined: Theory: a tentative explanation of some aspects of social life that states how and why certain social phenomenon are related. An example of a theory by durkheim: the likelihood that people commit suicide is affected by how much social solidarity they have: How connected people are with each other. People have shared ideas (ie. on right and wrong) shared norms and shared beliefs. To spe(cid:272)ify his theo(cid:396)y: (cid:373)o(cid:396)e sui(cid:272)ide i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ieties that do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e sha(cid:396)ed (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d ideas. Paradigm: a set of assumptions about how society works. An approach, a school of thought, a way of thinking: broader than a theory, has many theories.

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