SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Waterford School, Social Theory, Social System
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1: the forest, the trees, and the one thing. Privilege: special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. Individualism: a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. (this is very much what sociology is not about. ) Social system: the collection of roles in relationship to one another, forming a coherent whole. Much like the board game monopoly, social systems are environments in which we exist. We (cid:373)ake s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s happe(cid:374), a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ist out of s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s. (cid:455)ste(cid:373)s gi(cid:448)e us p(cid:396)i(cid:448)ilege. (e(cid:454): Waterford school district, united states citizens and economic classes, mjr digital cinemas employee) Suicide: in sociology, you cannot look at one suicide to explain why people commit suicide, you must look at all suicides to find trends and explain it. This proves sociology works even with the most personal and individual of subjects, as suicide is the largest individual decision one can make.