SOC205H1 Lecture : Lecture2.docx
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Mr. chang lin: chang. lin@utoronto. ca (tests) (email for office hours) Must incl. a variety of concepts from lecture & readings to support your observations. As long as refer to the city. You must demonstrate use of a sociological imagination. Steps: date time place, your observations: hundreds of people vs one person getting attention of the media, analysis: related to articles of protests and criminology etc . Public park: a gate: physical structure enclosure/ exclusion (meant to intimidate) E. g. man sitting on a chair outside the house on the roof-top: security camera, social control technology. Experiencing the city at a walking pace. Not window shopping or on the way home/ shopping. Georg simmel: the metropolis and mental life (1903) Began his enquiries from the bottom, up (look at sth little and work it up) Observed smallest of social interactions & attempted to see how larger scale institutions emerged from them. Because of this strategy he often observed things other theorists missed.