SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anomie, Montesquieu, Philosophes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

All study aspects of human behaviour and social life, but each has a different focus: Cultural anthropology: the culture or way of life of a society. Economics: economic conditions and how people organize, produce, and distribute goods. Sociology: human interaction, groups, and social structure. Developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces. Social issues are caused by larger social factors. A theory is a set of interrelated propositions constructed and fitting together logically, which claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. Explanations can be described as the stories we tell each other in attempts to produce some order in our lives. Theories outline paths that lead to particular outcomes. They allow us to feel that we know why something happened, and whether, or not under what conditions, it is likely to occur again. Sensitizing ability what has been ignored. Popularity popularity does not mean validity.