SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Double Consciousness, Anomie
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Social: social bonds that unite numbers of a social group (language, culture, belief) Mechanical: traditional societies, where people speak the same language, share same customs, do same work (the collective conscience) bonds weaken as societies become modern (organic solidarity) Anomie: when social norms & bonds weaken, society experiences anomie / normlessness. Formal rationality: (max weber) a context in which people"s pursuit of goals is increasingly shared by rules, regulations, & larger social structure / bureaucracies (formal organizations write rules, hierarchical authority, paid staff) improves efficiency, but strips individual creativity. Robert e. park (the chicago school/ social ills of urban life, homeless, crime, poverty) W. e. b. du bois (african americans double consciousness, not free of racial stigma) Women in early sociology in 19th century feminism exclude from public life, often ignored.
