SOC150H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spinach, Sherry Ortner, Participant Observation
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Sociology: systematic study of human action in context (what people do, how they feel, how they think, how people see the world) Structure and agency - critique of neoliberal subject (something happens because of decisions one makes) Structure: the base, the institutions in society. Structure of all systems (economic, political, educational) Ex. idea that your grades are a reflection of the effort you put into a course. Agency: the change, the individual humans that flow through the institutions. Power of agents (all humans that engage in actions) to engage in behaviours. You don"t control how the teacher presents information. Sociology is an elastic discipline that shares some elements in common with many other fields. History, philosophy, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, etc. Underlying sociology = philosophy and its concepts. Epistemology (how do we know what we know?) Early philosophers contributed to classical sociology theory through these fundamental tenents:
