SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Forces

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Systemic study of human behavior in a social content. Dispels myths-(black people commit crimes, poor people are poor because they don"t work. ) 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. A way that allows looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Micros level interactions- focuses on individuals and their interactions: ex. Meso level interactions- focuses on groups or organization: ex. Macros level interactions- focuses on social structure, social processes and problems: ex. How gender and income affect older people"s well being. Why do people commit suicide? (depression, mental illness, no purpose,