SOCI 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sui Generis, Sociology Of Culture, Married People
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Midterm 1 june 3rd sample mt questions wednesday. Bullet points have to be complete thoughts explain answers where needed. Wanted to systemize a way of studying society scientifically even more than weber, trying to reimagine sociology as a type of hard science. Elementary forms of religious life1912(provides tools of cultural sociology today) Mechanical solidarity industrialized france organic solidarity . At time of writing, already turn of century industrialised france and diagnoses a breakdown in prevailing forms of social solidarities (living in shadows of war and revolution (french, july) living in a wwi disputed territory. Saw in society alternating phases of order and disorder. In industrialised france, he saw disorder brought by processes of modernisation social, cultural, political change. Secularisation eroding the force of traditional moral codes. Urbanisation bringing people together on unprecedented scale. Modernity and urbanisation juxtaposition to world of pre-industrial life (people knew each other and felt obligations to their neighbour) transformed by processes of urbanisation.
