Visual Arts Studio 1020 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Auguste Comte

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Concerns itself with theories about the social relations between individuals and groups of people within a particular society. Identify general patterns in the behaviour of particular individuals. We all belong to categories: shape our lives. Society acts based on the categories we are used to. Stand outside of self, look through in perspective of others world. Society has impact on you based on those three forms of analysis. Structuration theory: develops sociological imagination, structuration has ability to make us act. We impact society, and society impacts us. Product: we are a product of our society. Producers: we have the ability to change and be producers. Systematic study of social behaviour in human societies. Goals: describe the social world, explain how and why, critique existing social arrangements. Change from a manual labour society to a manufactured society. Positivism = means to understand the world based on science. Statement of how and why certain facts are related.