Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Behaviour, Social Order, Social Contract

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2260A/B
• Professor: Brenda Kobayashi

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Plays a fundamental role n our society and in our lives. Affects how we behave or don(cid:495)t behave. Permeates all forms of social behaviour: how we think and act. Skeleton that structures our economic, social, and political lives. Ex: driving a car: makes us act differently and try to obey and be safe, changes the way we look at someone depending the way they drive/act on the roads. Law incorporates values, ideologies, social institutions, norms, power relations, and social processes law can be studied as a social process, instrumented by individuals during social interactions. Understand how society works by examining the role law plays. Looking both ways before you cross the street. Social order rests on people(cid:495)s willingness to obey rules, laws, norms. Ex: not doing drugs since they might harm you: socialization and social bonding. Ex: have to be bonded to our family, teachers, peer groups: obligation for obedience. Weber: individuals feel obligation to obey, voluntarily obey, authority.