SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harriet Martineau, Auguste Comte, Sociological Perspectives
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The systematic or scienti c study of human society and behavior from large scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions. We are social beings; we do not exist in isolation. How society a ects humans and how humans a ect society. Important because it explains why we behave the way we do. Seeing sociologically: living on the margins of society (outsider) and living through social crises. How society shapes what we do and think in pattern ways. Makes us uncomfortable because it questions what we take for granted. Looks at how society really works; people in power, bene ciaries of existing social arrangements. Social world is human; created and changed by humans. Social traditions leave us free from choice and is discomforting when we question it. Social boundaries (race, class, gender, sexuality) are social constructions. Describes the quality of mind that all great social analysts seem to possess.
