SOC101 Lecture Notes - Queer Theory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

It is the study of everything that people do. Major areas of sociological inquiry sociological theory, culture, socialization, groups & organizations, crime and deviance, social stratification & class, global stratification, race and ethic relations, sex and gender, religion, mass media. Charles wright mills- the sociological imagination y developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces. Peter berger y seeing the general in the particular y think about what is familiar and see it as strange. Positivism if you believe there are truths of data that you can find out if you know how to conduct the experiment. There exists an objective knowable reality y y singular explanation y value- free. Anti- positivism- rejects each of the positivist s assumptions. Macrosociology- refers to attempting to understand society as a whole (marx & durkhiem). Microsociology- refers to attempting to understand individual or small group dynamics (meed, cooley,