SOC100H5 Lecture 1: soc notes final2
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The systematic study of human behaviour in social context. 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. Statements about how or why particular facts about the social world are related. Emphasizes particular problems and makes testable assertions about those problems. How do women get promoted in law firms: metatheory. A way of looking at and interpreting reality. Human behavior is governed by stable patterns of social relations. Shows how structures maintain or undermine social stability. Social structures are based mainly on shared values. Re-establishing equilibrium is the best way to solve social problems (old idea, social structure like: class, institution of marriage. If these functions are working, then the society is and if not, it leads to social instability. Part of human nature, if you can"t satisfy your needs, seek at someone else. Undermining the social structure of constitution of marriage)
