Sociology 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Erving Goffman, Subculture, Charlton Ogburn
28 Apr 2014
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Human agency: the ability to act: milieu. Your community, sense of belonging, your everyday context. Gemeinschaft (tonnies) sense of belonging : history. The society you live in and the structures. Society/structures (what opens or retrains opportunities: private troubles: focusing on individuals (ex. Debt: public issues: problems at the level of society (the history, anthony giddens: structuration theory, double involvement of self in society. Products: you are a product of your society. Producers: we can bring about social change. Sociological theory: sociology is: the systematic study of social behaviour in human societies. 1838- auguste comte (father of sociology: a new way of looking at the world sociology, positivism . Understanding the world based on scientific methods. Making sense out of something puzzling: theory: a statement of how and why certain facts are related; explains patterns, theoretical paradigms: a basic image of society guiding thinking and research.
