SOC 2280 Lecture Notes - Environmental Sociology, Anomie, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2280
• Professor: Mark Juhasz

Document Summary

Chapter 2: human systems, environment & social science. A network of interdependent actors (individuals, organizations, subsystems) that are in relatively stable patterns of interaction and intercommunication. Everything is ultimately connected to everything else. You can t ever do or change just one thing without some consequences. Culture= worldviews, paradigms, ideologies, knowledge, beliefs, values, symbols, language. Social structure= world system, society, nation state, complex organizations, social stratification systems, small groups, kinship systems, status roles. Material infrastructure= wealth, material culture, technologies, human population, human environment relations, biophysical resources. The total learned way of life that people in groups share. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of such conceptual continuity in normal science were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. During revolutions in science the discovery of anomalies leads to a whole new paradigm that changes the rules of the game. Hegemony= the cultural predominance of one country upon another s.