SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Individualism, False Consciousness, Auguste Comte
15 Nov 2016
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Scientific study of the dynamic relationship between individual people and social systems and their influence on human behavior and social life. Defined more by it"s perspective (sociological imagination) than a particular subject matter. Social problems caused by flaws in individual character. Collections of statuses, roles and shared ideas ( norms and values) that the tie these statues and roll together into relationships. Sociology is based on an epistemology of empiricism. Epistemology: how we know what we claim to know. Different views on how relationship between individuals or social systems actually works to influence social. Describes the more specific why and/or how of the process outlined in the working definition of. Theoretical perspectives in sociology patterns and individual behavior sociology . Shift in economic structures of society away from agriculture. Auguste comte: french social thinker who coined the term sociology in 1838 to describe a scientific view of understanding soccer.
