SOCI 2013 Lecture 1: Chapter 1 Notes
6 Feb 2019
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Society: a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory, and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Contagion effect: the spread of affect or behavior from one crowd participant to another; one person serves as the stimulus for the imitative actions of another. Anomie: a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals. Emile durkheim: related suicide to the issue of cohesiveness in society instead of viewing it as an isolated act that could be understood by studying individual personalities or inherited tendencies. French sociologist that stressed that people are the product of their social environment: wrote the rules of sociological method. Idea that societies are built on facts: social facts: patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over each person (ex: suicide)
