CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Determinism, Smoothness, Fundamental Attribution Error
6 Apr 2018
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This 19th century perspective was an effort to create an orderly and hamonious society by establishing stability/equilibrium. Durkheim considered crime to be normal and useful. Identify one type of society as presented by durkheim when discussing solidarity: mechanical, organic. Reasoning usually depends on individual engage in fundamental attribution error: focus on internal characteristics or disposition or personality rather than considering external factors. What is the sociological imagination (c. wright mills) Ability to analyze how individual are influenced by larger social structures. See the general in the particular (ie. capitalism is a broad topic but we can apply it to a specific thing like homeless people, why is it in one of the worlds richest nations has so many homeless people?) See the strange in the familiar (need to step back, think outside of the box) Use sociological imagination to make sense of obesity viewed as problem: Availability & marketing of fast food chains cheap and fast, appealing.
