SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Perspectives, Neoliberalism, Industrial Revolution
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It is the systematic study of human action in context. How they experience certain events including the emotions associated with these experiences. Interested in how human beings think, what goes on in their head. Many thoughts we think, but do not act upon. "in context" means that we interested in how experiences appear in particular historical, cultural, economic, social contexts. We want to understand people in different social enviornments/contexts. Human beings and the context they live in is always changing. Two ways/aspects that together combined explain a lot that goes on around us. It is choice, free will, all the decisions that we ar ebale to make as an individual, family, or community out of available options there. It is tied to notion that human beings own their own lives and the outcomes influenced by the decisions they make throughout there life time. Structure has an impact on us, but fall outside of our control.
