SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Air Jordan, Making Money, Commodity Fetishism
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Sociology- study of institutions, organizations, patterns of behavior, shared cultural/ideological assumptions about how society works. Comte- sociology understand how it relates to other parts of the body. To understand the function of religion, you need to understand the part it plays in the continued existence and health of society. The importance of studying language in order to analyze the social world. Symbolic thought frees us from being limited by our experiences. Human live in a richly symbolic universe. Microsociology- face to face interactions / individuals.
