SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Traumatic Brain Injury, Symbolic Interactionism, Mass Media
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Institution: a relatively stable, shared pattern of behavior based on relatively stable values and maintained through social interaction. Interaction: a socially recognized pattern of interrelated acts. Sociology: the study of social structures; the study of development, structure, and functioning of human society. Two social crises were especially important for the early development of sociology. Industrial revolution thrust people into new kinds of economic relationships. French revolution thrust people into new kinds of political relationships. Aims of sociology: to find and explain patterns of people"s social relations, to question common sense and the received wisdom about the way society works, to solve social problems and find better ways of living. This shows that instrumental parentification can be an asset for immigrant children but emotional parentification is a risk factor for immigrant children. Sociology is a worldwide activity, oriented to people"s problems, timely, rooted, theoretical, empirical, incremental, open-ended, and connected to other disciplines.
