SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Solidarity, Structural Functionalism

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

Document Summary

4 historical shift leading to development of sociology: growth in science, the industrial revolution and capitalism, urbanization, the rise of states and political revolution. Industrial revolution and capitalism industrial based economy (farm to factory: shift from a family farm, where the money was circulated within. Emile durkheim the family to working for someone else. Giving someone else your labor in return for money. Urbanization: moving into a city, away from families, into crowded. Four major theories in sociology accommodations and over crowded cities: lead to a loss in the sense of community. Rise of states and political revolutions: sociology becoming a discipline, government beginning to exerts a lot of control over populations, groups rising against the government, structural functionalism, conflict ----, empirical component, ideas must be sociological. Society: a complex system of parts working together to promote solidarity and stability. Emile durkheim: interested in how different parts of a society worked together in addition to society as a whole.