SOC-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Secular Morality, Scientific Method
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Making the familiar strange and having a sociological imagination vs. Sociological imagination removing one from a purely individual context and understanding social-level factors that may influence people the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society. Social outcomes are based on what we do. We have limited perspective restricted by the social situations we encounter on a daily basis. Overcome the limited perspectives, and connect the personal problems to larger social context otherization: having a biased starting point and viewing something new/different as inherently bad because of its unfamiliarity. Argued that positivism could be used to investigate society to use scientific method to study sociology. Society as an organism organism: different roles in society refers to organs in human body whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Social planning- the society and social order are not natural or preordained by a divine power, but are constructed by individuals. (social.
