SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Media, Industrial Revolution
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It is the study of society and human interaction. Dictionary definition given: systematic study of human action in context: what human being do, what humans feel, think, and know, sociology studied as it appears in particularly in. Social terms: sociology is a dynamic growing discipline full of possibilities. Definition of agency: you and your free will, also focuses on choices. Definition of structure: outside of us as an individual. Inputs that create conditions in which you make decisions: opportunity and constraints are not evenly distributed. Ontology: what is real: if it is not real then sociologist cannot study it. The scientific revolution (16th century) encouraged the use of evidence to. The democratic revolution (18th century) encouraged the view that human action can change society. The industrial revolution (19th century) gave sociologist their subject matter.
