Class Notes for Sociology at University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Soc 100 lecture 1 introduction to sociology and the sociological imagination. What is sociology: systematic study of human behaviour in a social contex

Soc100 lecture 17 health and medicine. Individual: diet and lifestyle: excessive substance use, poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation. Life lon

Stratification: rich vs poor, powerful vs powerless, highly educated vs less educated. Income: money earned over a given period. A welfare state is one

Soc100 lecture 9 crime and deviance (part ii) Prominent escapees: thomas william mccauley, mastermind behind prison break of 14 inmates in 1973, 27 yea

It"s a mirror, the way we see our self is how other people view us. If we don"t look at interaction, we are ignoring how peoples behaviour are shaped b

Ideas as to how or why things in the social world are connected: not just a guess, a series of testable connections, can be proved wrong if it is a str

Soc100 lecture 8 crime and deviance (part i) Ambiguity: deviance is a concept that people create a definition for, things that are deviant to some, are

Merit and sorting: based on talent and effort, the most talented and most intelligent get ahead. Training: perform essential tasks essential for societ