SOCI 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contemporary Sociology, Digital Economy, Social Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3040
• Professor: Heather Garrett

Document Summary

It has been criticized that every phenomenon has been socially constructed. How people define things and what is in their minds creates the problem. But we run into the issue that it cannot be just the subjective. They were writing at a time of feudalism to capitalism. But why should we care about that in contemporary social. It is more about the general approach to social change. Today we are looking at how it changed from industrialization to the digital economy we are going through. They teach us a certain approach to sociological questions. Background of the course: theory is a component that is necessary for a discipline. You have the theory and the methods that go together to define the discipline. Sociology is the study of society: psychology looks at the relationship between people in a one direction way, however, sociology looks at the interaction between people.