SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean Piaget, Bowstring, Ascribed Status

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the particular cannot speak to every first year student so you gather a few students from every faculty to speak with. Cannot look at society as a whole, look in bits and pieces. In order to be accepted we make ourselves behave a certain way (do anything to be accepted) around different groups we act different ways. Durkheim found certain people are more likely to commit suicide than others: if you feel unaccepted or without control, unmarried, protestant (jewish people less likely, those who have social connection (friends, family) are less likely. Age of consent in canada is 16 however in other cultures boys entering puberty perform oral sex for elders and its seen as a right of passage. Immigrants go to toronto to find people of their own race since toronto is the most multi-racial city. Example of public policy charter of rights and freedoms. Laws change based on the perspective of people in society.