Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Integration, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Conflict Theories
17 Aug 2018
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The systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Sociologists attempt to answer questions we have about the social world. Culture, history, social class, education, gender, religion, ethnicity, ability. How they determined roles and values towards society. Global structure: rules around social behaviour, overall human behaviour, un, globalization: multiple dimensions (cultural, economic, political) Macrostructures: one society like canada, or specific culture. Mesostructures: studying a department in a university, studying a province. Individuals: studying individuals not the way psychology does, looking at patterns, trends within individuals. In canada, each province has their own education system: doing it at the same level. Agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently to make their own free choice. Free will, choices that we can make and we are unique: personal choice and reaction. Origins of the sociological imagination: scientific revolution (circa 1550) Focusing on logic and evidence rather than being told by a religious leader we look for the proof.
