SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Microsociology, The Sociological Imagination, Personal Structures

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Nathan Young

Document Summary

When people come together we create things that did not come before (economy/culture) The way humans choose to do things is structured in a particular way but that way is not the only way it could be. There are reasons why we do the things we do. We k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) to (cid:373)ake thi(cid:374)gs do a lot of thi(cid:374)gs (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) it (cid:449)orks (cid:894)like a fish tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to study water) Individuals who have common goals/beliefs, you are connected, you have certain values that you share (shared expectations and behaviours) You will never meet the majority of your society but you are still affected by each other. Society is a concrete abstraction, we can observe its reality in the responses of other people and institutions, it is recreated. The interactions of humans over a long time. They create patterns some of which become widespread some become highly consequential. Human beings are compelled to be together and compelled to interact.