SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Control, Consumerism, Dennis Wrong

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Textbook"s definition: all the socially transmitted ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. : very functional definition. Society: people interacting socially and sharing culture, usually in a defined geographical area. Ability to create symbols to classify and generalize experiences. Symbols: general ideas that carry particular meanings. : culturally created, respected, disputes made about it: necessary for social change + shaping culture, personally invested in ones we think reflect us, cultural groups symbolically constructed thru shared symbols. Sociologists use this word often because they acknowledge that everything is made non naturally: used to distinguish groups. Emile durkheim: collective representations: ideas, symbols created by a collection of people, used to make sense of the world. Human capacity to create a complex social life by establishing norms. Norms: standard behavior / generally accepted way of doing things. Improves ability to take what we want from nature.