SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Deodorant, Francis Fukuyama, Justin Bieber
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An idea whose time has come by earl babbie. This is the time of unprecedented dangers (never known before) and real achievements. Babbie claims, sociology is an idea whose time has come. Sociology involves the study of human beings including study of interactions and relations among human beings. Sociological insights are needed today more than ever unprecedented dangers today: result of first nuclear war), overpopulation, pollution, starvation, crime, inflation, prejudice etc. British people don"t know it (but both are same) Rules take the strongest hold when they are internalized (taken inside ourselves and made our own) sociology is the study of how we break the rules (eg. bad grammar, speeding etc) Rules of society are to extensive and complex and no one can keep them all (in rush hour on a. Sociology: an examination of the rules that govern our living together: what they are, how they arise, and how they change; special approach to the rules of social life.