SOC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Auguste Comte, Social Group, Upper Class
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Objectives: define the field of sociology, explain the concept of sociological imagination and its place in sociology. Personal: friend group, student life, having money at college. What is sociology: science of society, systematic study of social life, uses objectivity to establish how subjectivities form and change, how institutions are organized, how institutions create structured social relations, etc. Sociology: society comes before the individual, analogy, molecules are composed of an assemblance of atoms, atoms are the smallest unit, atoms do not occur in singularity, they are always bonded with other atoms. Historical social scientists: those who paved the way, august comte, 1798-1857, french thinker. Ibn khaldun: 1332-1406, tunisian thinker, conceptualized social cohesion, social conflict, and group solidarity. References the way we are taught to view the world around us and the perceptions we have of people from different backgrounds. Can only really understand through our own cultural lens.
