SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Mass Incarceration, Scientific Method
28 Sep 2018
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Sociology is the systematic study of society. Inquiry as to the ways people participate in, are shaped by, band create society. Reveals the power of society to shape individual lives. Helps us see the opportunities and constraints in our lives. Empowers us to be active participants in our society. Helps us live in a diverse world. C. wright mills enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Political change: the idea that democracy would ensure individual freedoms and rights. The three main perspectives: structural-functional approach, macro approach, solidarity and stability, based on this perspective, society holds us together, social conflict approach, macro approach, institutions reproduce inequality (ex. Mass incarceration system: symbolic interaction approach, micro approach, creates inequality, people have agency or free will. Characterizes society as a stable system in which societal consensus lay in the majority of the members. Share a common set of values, beliefs, and behavioral expectations.
