SA 150 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Macrosociology, Microsociology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ataman Avdan

Document Summary

Sociology is the systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. Auguste comte, a french scholar coined sociology as the science of society and human social behaviour. Sociological imagination: is the ability to see relationships between individual lives and social processes. Thinking about these levels, c wright mills identi ed. Troubles and issues. personal troubles are private challenges: problems individuals experience in their own lives or as they interact with others. Social issues are societal challenges: phenomena and processes that exist in societies. ^personal issues are not separate from social issues. Social issues cannot be understood without looking at personal issues. Microsociology -> macrosociology (ability to make connections) Agency- re ective action that cannot be predicted (people have this) Common sense- widely held beliefs without scienti c support. Durkeim- study of suicide: social integration in different religious communities. A social phenomenon is a part of human life that is rooted in society or in social interaction.