SOC 1005 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Social Disorganization Theory, Sociological Perspectives
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Sociology- scientific study of social behavior in human groups. How relationships influence people"s attitudes and behavior. How societies develop and change: wright mills describes sociological imagination as: An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society. A key element is ability to view one"s society as an outsider would, rather than only from the prospective experience. Understand the relationship between history and biography. Philosophers/religious authorities of ancient and medieval societies made observations of human behavior. European theorists in 19th century made pioneering contributions to development of science of human behavior. Enlightenment made people move away from religious explanations of society to scientific thought. Behavior must be understood within larger social context, how society maintains itself. Wanted to study sociology as a science- social fact - everything can be studied as a social fact. Society divided between two classes that clash in pursuit of their own interests. Emphasized group identifications and associations that influence one"s place in society.
