SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montesquieu, Global Community, Social Forces

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

Document Summary

Global community society naional organizaions, insituions local organizaions & community me (friends/family/self) Comparing the social sciences (all study aspects of human behaviour but are slightly diferent) Sociology: the study of human interacion, groups and social structure. Cultural anthropology: culture of a way of life or society. Economics: economic condiions and how people organize/distribute goods. Unique way in which sociologists see our world and can dissect the dynamic relaionships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. Sociological imaginaion (chapter the promise : developing an appreciaion of how individual challenges are inluenced by larger social forces. Social issues: are caused by larger social factors (also called public issues. Theory: set of interrelated proposiions constructed and iing together logically, which, claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. Explanaions can be described as the stories we tell each other in atempts to produce some order in our lives.