SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Canadian Airborne Regiment
6 Dec 2012
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Looking at individual behaviour in a social context. Individual behaviour represents that of categories of people (e. g. men/women) Social contexts- different effects on different categories of people, rather than on individuals. Giving up the notion of individual decision- making. Seeing the guiding hand of society in our thoughts and deeds. Recognizing the determinism constraining our free will . Durkheim looked at suicide rates among different categories of people (high- affluent, protestant, single) (low- poor, catholic, married) Rates increase during rapid social change (aboriginal communities have higher suicide rates, extreme rapid changes) (change in individual status/social mobility) Reflects canadian economy, which depends on natural resources (extraction and export)_ fur, lumber, fish, oil, uranium. Second largest country in the world so nation- building difficult: communications, communication technologies, and the media important areas. Canada is a county rooted in immigration: thus ethnicity, intergroup relations, stratification and social class became important areas of sociology research.
