SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Elite, Talcott Parsons

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Four major transformations that were essential for sociology to emerge in expression of the will of god. Industrial revolution and urbanization process: sociology was to provide the solution for problems that arose from these. They suggested that people could change society and social order wasn"t an they weren"t describing or trying to describe society as it really was. Before then we only had philosophers that spoke about the ideal society but. The scientific revolution established sociology as a science. This means that sociological knowledge was to be guided by facts and observations and no longer by imagination as was done by early philosophers. We must use the methods as used by the natural scientist and apply them to the social sciences. This is what sets sociology apart from early philosophy. He believed that society is more than the sum of its part.