SCLG1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Edward S. Herman, Social Control, Gender Trouble
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Sociologists are suspicious of arguments that appeal to: nature, common sense, or expertise. Sociology sees hidden connections: private/public, individual/collective, personal/systematic, specific/general, biographical/historical. Sociology is an ethical enterprise, concerned with right/wrong. Best seen as a perspective rather than a profession. Sociology uses causal reasoning, based on evidence, to explain how society works. Seeing human actions as elements of wider figurations, actors locked together in web of mutual dependency. Much more troubling to see system is at fault, structural inequalities embedded within it, some do well at expense of others. Societies are constructed to advantage/benefit, of certain groups at expense of others. Needs to represent groups on their own terms. Modernity (cid:858)g(cid:396)eat t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sfo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374)(cid:859) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)al to (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) life. Industrialisation, urbanisation, bureaucratization, rationalization, secularization, democratization, individualization, fragmentation, globalization. In the late 1700s, political economists first recognised empirically a field of social regularities of a(cid:374) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) ki(cid:374)d (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the(cid:455) te(cid:396)(cid:373)ed (cid:858)la(cid:449)s. (cid:859) these ope(cid:396)ated i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)tl(cid:455) of the go(cid:448)t.
