SOCL 2001 Lecture : SOCL 2001 Notes Chap 1-3
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Coined by c. wright mills, this tool helps us to: Connect our personal experiences to society at large and greater. Social institutions are networks of structures in society that work to historical forces. Make the familiar strange, or to question habits or customs that. Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations seem natural to us between the two within history . What is a social institution? socialize the groups of people within them. on when you start a family for example); the military; the family. What is social identity? apart of (or in relationship to groups they choose not to be a part of) divorced as a symbol of changing who you are to the outside world. Auguste comte: society is better understood by underlining the logic or scientific laws(probability) governing human behavior, called social physics or positivism. Ex: women typically change their name when they get married and/or.