SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Signify, Antihero, Impression Management
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Armies try to install high levels of solidarity, to teach loyalty, to protect comrades: durkheim was troubled with french . What social scientists do, is research to test theories and they learn how to systematically collect evidence and analyze it to prove or disprove theories: romeo and juliet: star crossed lovers. Second derived from democratic revolution (french and american) . They encouraged that human action can change society. The revolutions threw out the predestined rulers (king and queen) believing that they were not above the rest. it was a revolutionary ides: giving power to the people . you can change society. Third thing that had to occur was the industrial revolution (early 1780"s) It involved growth and industry, but it also dislocated people. They worked countless hours when moved to the city and faced filth and bureaucracy, criminal behaviour. Terrible suffering occurred: sociologists called industrial revolution a laboratory for determining why people are acting the way they are acting.
