SOC100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Auguste Comte, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Lorne Tepperman

Document Summary

Sociology: the study of the patterned relations among humans, and of the social institutions people create. Social institution: a kind of social structure made up of a number of relationships. Sociological imagination: an approach to sociology that attempts to make sense of the personal experiences of individuals within the societal context in which these experiences occur, and relate them to public issues. Positivism: a philosophical belief that any rational assertion can be proven scienti cally. Value system: a set of socially shared ideas of what a group or society considers good, right, and desirable. Interaction: processes by which and manner in which social actors relate to each other (face to face encounters) micro-sociology: processes between small groups of people. Social construction: social world consists of understands that humans have reached and reinforced overtime. Performativity: gender and social factors are socially constructed and th. Auguste comte invented the term sociologie in the nineteenth century.