SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Social Actions

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2040
• Professor: Charles Battershill

Document Summary

Lecture 7: the language and grammar of social order and social organisation 1: the importance of context. Part one: introduction to a new section of the course: the language and grammar of social order and social. Organisation: review of freedom and constraint and where social order/organization fits. In between freedom and constraint: the language of social order: context, social actor, social action, social interaction, social institution, Part two: context: definitions of context, c. wright mills discussion of the sociological imagination, the context could be historical; economic; political; cultural; organizational; geographical etc, the essence of the sociological. Imagination is the ability to link biography with history within society. *to think of context in ever widening circles and. *to think of context not in a static way, but in terms of social processes. 4. the role of context in resolving ethical questions: David ehrenfeld on the cow tipping point. (a) the wrong context.