SOC103H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Thomas Luckmann

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Institution: a relatively stable, shared pattern of behavior based on relatively stable values, meets peoples most important needs. We learn to behave in similar ways to one another. Social institutions are stable patterns of behavior created and maintained through social interaction (a socially recognized pattern of interrelated acts) All social structures: control us, change us, both resist and produce social change, sociology is the study of social structures. Auguste comte invented word sociologie -a division of science concerned with human beings. Today: the study of predictable/recurring relations among human beings & social institutions and societies people create through such relations. We can"t see social structures except by its effects. Two social crises were important for development of sociology: industrial. Revolution thrust people into new kinds of economic relationships & the. French revolution thrust people into new kinds of political relationships.

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