SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mail Online, Participant Observation, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Requires a detachment from the taken-for-granted assumptions about social life. Societal conditions are primary source of social problems (e. g. looking at power distribution) System is made up of individual people and some people can be mean, hateful, etc. Person-blame distracts attention away from economic, social, or political institutions. Frees government, economy, and educational system (among other institutions) from blame. Person blame facilitates institutional control of deviants. Legitimizes social programs aimed at individuals (e. g. counseling, behaviour modification, or psychotherapy. Social darwinist position that people are placed in system according to ability or inability. The contextual condition and historical moment that help define our collective behaviour. Occur within character of individualwithin scope of his immediate milieu. - Have to do with the organization of many such milieu into the institutions of a historical society as a whole. Biographies are lived in the context of world events simultaneously determined by historically specified conditions.
