SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solidarity, Altruistic Suicide, Social Forces
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Soc100 lecture #1 introduction to sociology and the sociology imagination. What is sociology: systematic study of human behavior in a social context. Informs about social structures, behavior, culture, etc: dispels myths. Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Identify social context in which we live and how these contexts shape our lives. Interconnection between life of an individual and the history of society visible by studying it: global: macro and micro, macro: large scale social processes, micro: small, group, face-to-face interactions. Durkheim"s suicide - why do people commit suicide: mental illness: depression, social pressures, feel that they have no reason to live anymore, social isolation, regret, guilt, sadness, no sense of belonging, an escape or way out, bullying. If your solidarity is too low, you are most likely to commit suicide. If your solidarity is too high, you will commit suicide.
