SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Macrosociology, Structural Functionalism, George Herbert Mead

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

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Frank furedi: handing out lecture notes = bad idea. Jan 9 class 1 interpretation of lectures, doesn"t engage new ideas. What is social psychology: social psychologists are interested in studying how and why our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are shaped by le social environment. Social psychology is defined as the scientific study of the way in which people"s imagined presence, friends, and family thoughts, feelings and actions are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Imagined presence = what other people think of you. Sociology is the scientific study of human society. Social psychologists who work in this tradition are interested in the relationship between individuals and group. Psychology is the scientific study of the individual and of individual behavior. Social psychologists who work in the tradition are concerned with individual behavior and social stimuli. It is divided into areas: macrosociology, ex: revolutions, marx, microsociology (or sociological social psychology) Psychology is the study of human though processes.