SOCIOL 167 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fake News, Social Fact
Document Summary
Sociology is the study of companions; the study of group life and those aspects of individual life that are affected by group interactions. Sociology is about studying behavior in which people orient their action towards others. Key insight: we cannot understand social life and social phenomena without understanding the tension between how society shapes us and how we shape society. Looking about how the trees and forest relate to each other. Pattern of social relationships and behaviors that work as a system to constrain individual choice. Organized social relationships that connect people to one another and to systems. Defines the rules and norms and relationship with each other in a system. Gives social life its familiar and predictable shape. Collection of elements that makes them whole. Social fact: a social fact is any way of acting, whether fixed or not, capable of exerting over the individual an external constraint.
