SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eugenics, Post-Structuralism, Class Conflict
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Sociology: we live in a world constantly changing, these changes can have progressive or restrictive possibilities, sociology can help make sense of it and include different perspectives, the world and human relations are messy and complex. A singular framework may not have all the answers. It is not something considered a good thing in society: ex. Mental wellbeing is important and we cannot dismiss clinical reasons for suicide. Limited or lack of availability of mental health services speak to a context in our social: suicide can happen due to more than social factors (ex. What resources are more available for some individuals compared to others: global structure patterns outside the national scale (e. g. international organizations and economic relations, wright mills: Early sociological thinking: aimed at maintaining a glorified status quo, attempts to develop a science , spencer thought that societies evolve in the same way biological species do.
