SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Production, Intensive Animal Farming, Critical Thinking

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Today: examine emergence of the discipline of sociology (how are things framed, etu(cid:396)(cid:374) to (cid:858)(cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374)(cid:859) Having critical thinking skills is about having the ability to interrogate the veracity of those headlines on social media, print and the media in general. How do we make decisions on health care, or exercise or anything else as information trends change all the time. Ex. something being good for you 2 years ago and then deemed as unhealthy a few years later. Critical thinking is about posing good questions and finding relevant and valid responses. The political discourse going on right now is built by the people looking to calm their fear. Fathers of sociology (emile durkiem, max weber) looked at how people were surviving in the circumstance of industrialization and urbanization with the poverty and densely populated areas. They wondered why people were living like this and how did societies come to be this way.