SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Émile Durkheim, Social Fact, Infant Mortality
10 Oct 2018
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Social movements - charles tilly and lesley wood 2009. Sms rarely engage more than a small fraction of the population. But their efforts have consequences for everyone. Theoretical formulations are applied in order to answer this, and other questions. Functionalist - all institutions have a function. Con ict - society is made up of con ict, antagonistic relationship. Symbolic interactionist- micro approach, day to day regarding individuals. Sociology 2 major approaches (macro and micro approaches) Believed that people are a product of social environment and behaviour cannot be fully understood by biological or psychological traits. Societies are built of social facts- patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over each person (macro institutional approach) Durkheim set up the rst european department of sociology at the uni of bordeaux in. Advocate of the scienti c approach to examine social facts.
