SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict, Verstehen, Anomie
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Sy101 - lecture 1 - intro to sociology. Explain and make generalizations (go beyond the individual case and apply to a broader situation) Make predictions (to specify what will happen in the future in light of current knowledge) Some findings of sociology support common-sense understandings of social life, while others contradict them. Stresses social contexts in which people live and how these influence their lives. Social location (occupation, income, gender, age, ethnicity, education) External influences (people"s experiences which are internalized and become part of a person"s thinking and motivations. Sociological imagination: a way of looking at the world that allows links between apparently private problems and important social issues. Sociological imagination or perspective enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography. (mills 1959) Macrosociology: focuses on broad features of society. Emerged in middle of 19th c. with use of scientific method to test ideas. Emile durkheim (1858-1917) - social integration vs anomie and suicide.
