SOC100H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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The systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. Seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Identify the social context in which we live in and now these contexts shape our lives. A way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important sociological issues. Interconnection between life of an individual and the history of society. Suicide rates vary by degree of social solidarity. Solidarity: degree of shared beliefs and values, intensity and frequency of their interaction. Develop deep, sympathetic understanding of the social world. Ask people about their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. Ex, ycvs identify thieves: interviews where they talk directly to the identity thieves to gain a better understanding. Documents created by others for purposes other than sociological research. Allows researchers to isolate causes and measure their effects. Concept- mental construct representing some part of the world in simplified form.
