SOC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Calvin, Commodity Fetishism, Division Of Labour
20 Apr 2016
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What is sociology: the idea of science being applied to social behaviour. What is society: how people orient with each other in the environment. Thinking sociologically means: how the world works, power relations, social patterns, and who creates knowledge. Macrosociology: sociology that concentrates on the large scale of entire civilizations, for example durkheim"s studies of cross-cultural suicide, or the study of international crime rates. Microsociology: sociology that concentrates on the study of small groups and uses experimental study in labs, for example studies of how a teacher"s expectation can affect a students performance. Going from the empirical ground (describing what is happening in peoples" lives) Feudalism was going down; rise of middle class wealth. Rise of nation - the idea of belonging to a imaginary community. People were moving in to cities urbanization. The downside to the rise of urbanization in the big city were dirt and crime rates. People were socializing more with strangers very overwhelming.
