SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Embeddedness, Social Forces

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Dahab

Document Summary

Sociology: the study of human relations in groups and societies. Social embeddedness: how our social worlds are constructed. Every society has thought that technology causes problems. Technology helps to understand connections between self and society. Social structure: social pattern of human relation that constricts and enables agency. Society was born during the scientific revolutions and industrial revolutions. When science was born, so was technology. From traditional and classical scientific based thinking. Created a social science to better and change lives. Came out of the french revolution and industrialization era. 3 phases: theological stage: dealing with religions, metaphysical stage: there is a marketplace of thinking, scientific reasoning: final necessary stage. Society can"t be trusted, so create a social physics that creates laws. Created functionalism, a body that needs all of its parts. Said society was going towards anime: a lack of shared values; normlessness. Decides we should use math as a universal language for sociology, binary.