SY101 Study Guide - Post-Structuralism, Liberal Feminism, Social Inequality
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Sociology: scientific study of society and human behaviour, social factors as they influence people, interactions between people/ groups, social change, social order, social inequality, why people behave the way they do in a social setting. Macro: focus on social structure: social institutions (family, economy, legal system, culture, norms beliefs, language, education, class and status systems) organized to satisfy our basic needs. Micro: small scale patterns, theories: symbolic interactionism, feminism, post structuralism. Social work is to sociology as clinical psychology is to psychology. A science: tries to predict, understand, control things surrounding us. Is sociology a science: we can describe and explain social behaviour but not always predict or control with certainty. Mary barton: novel written about industrial misery of the middle class of england, written by a sister of the queen. Karl marx (1818-1883) religion is the opium of the masses middle class man, ingles paid for marx to write, he wrote of socialism, died in poverty.
