SOCA01H3 Lecture : lecture 1
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Power: the ability to make other people act in your best interest. According to c. wright mills (1916-1962) sociology is about connecting the micro level to the macro level. Ex: gender (why someone would want to have a child) * second shift (mothers working after their actual work) Patriarchy: economic and political inequality between women and men in most societies (can constrain choices for people) Sociological imagination: the ability to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures. Developed by c. wright millis in 1959. Social structure: relatively stable patterns of social relations. Microstructures: patterns of intimate social relations formed during face-to-face interactions. Sociology is the study of the invariant laws of natural and social world. Sociology is the study of the social organism of society, which follows evolutionary principles (e. g social darwinism) Believed he discovered scientific laws governing the operation of society. Theorized that societies evolved in the same way as biological species do.
