SOCI 1002H Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Neoliberalism, Welfare State, Social Inequality
12 Oct 2018
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Society as object of study: european context: rise of natural sciences, systematic study of an observable reality, opposed centralized authority of church (change of power, traditional authority and beliefs. Impacts upon social relations, new forms of power. Social structure and interaction: social structure made up of institutions that organize/manage/discipline our interactions, culture is the content that fills up the structure, rules of engagement: norms, values, language. Relations of power: ability to achieve your will despite resistance of others (privilege, power is achieved through the control of resources of value, 2 fields: material and micro (status) Emile durkheim: first book: suicide, no such thing as individual, only society. Increased solidarity increased suicide rates: hyper individualism is toxic, anomie: lack of norms. 1002: what"s different: time: matter of management, to judge of character. Theorizing freedom: types of freedoms, legal freedoms: due process, free market: work, consume, sell, academic freedom: expression, democratic freedom: vote, sociological approach:
