SOC150H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)
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Example: education: way in which information is being passed on, different learning types, economics - ability to pay for tuition family influence. Sociology and other field: sociology = elastic discipline that shares some elements in common with many other fields, history, philosophy, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, etc. Sociology for a changing role industrialization - change in economic landscape: urbanization - move from rural to urban, secularization - authority over people"s lives rationalization - large democracies with rules, globalization. Key figures = durkheim, marx, weber, simmel, etc. tried to make sense of those changes. The social: elements that constitute the social affect, opinions, values, beliefs, knowledge, habits, tastes, desires, dreams. Objective of sociology: describing the social world, understanding the social world influencing / improving the social world in which we live. Opinion: a view or judgment about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge: opinions are deeply personal, depending on our tastes, feelings, and ideas about the world.
