SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Proletariat, Anomie, Bourgeoisie

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Mary- Anne Kandrack

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Society: the largest-scale human group, whose members interact with one another, share a common geographic territory, and share common institutions. Social structure: any enduring, predictable pattern of social relations among people in society. Social institution: a kind of social structure made up of a number of relationships, operating to achieve certain social goals (e. g. family, formal religion, education) Sociological imagination: an approach to sociology that attempts to relate personal experience to public issues and to the broader societal context in which these experiences occur (c. wright mills) Lewis coser (1913 2003) argued that conflict has important social functions and can tighten the bonds of loosely structured groups and societies: anthony giddens (b. 1938) advocates a fusion approach to sociology that illustrates the need to understand all of the main concepts of the discipline in order to be an effective sociologist.