SOCI 2110H- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2110H
• Professor: Barbara

Document Summary

Mills: what is the structure of this particular society, where does this society stand in human history, what sorts of people live in this society, connecting biography and history, personal troubles and public issues. Is modernity" as taken up by social theory too limited by its origins in white, male, European thought: bhambra: sociology is both a system of knowledge oriented to history and. The context for the development of social theory. Concepts": basic building blocks of theories, abstractions that connect particular, concrete observations, examples, modernity, class, gender, bureaucracy, status, social solidarity, globalization, discourse, surveillance, postmodernity etc, giddens two-way relationship between sociological concepts and experience/behavior. The importance of social theory: sociological theory insists on society" and the social" as distinct levels of analysis, compare to, naturalistic theory, we"re hard wired". Individualistic theory: we"re all different, sociological theories agree that human experiences are shaped by social influences.