SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Queer Theory, Iron Cage, Jane Addams
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What is sociology: the systematic study of human society. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two within society . Social theory: macro level of analyst, large-scale of social systems, micro level of analyst, small-scale of social system. Sociology and revolution: understanding the problems that causes revolutions, new theory, pg. 16 timeline. Auguste comte: father of sociology (he called it social physics, positivism, sees sociology as a science. Harriet martineau: early feminist social scientist, educating children, institution of marriage, said that our pop music reflects our society. Karl marx: journalist, historian, historical materialism more things = more inequality, class struggle and capitalism, bourgeois and proletariant. Max weber (1864-1920: interpretive sociology, studies on: authority, rationality, the state, social status, and the iron cage of bureaucracies. Emile durkheim: french sociologist, how society holds together (social solidarity, suicide (1897) men commit more suicide, positivist.
