SOCL 1101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 76 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Can earn up to an additional 20 points of extra credit. Interested in growing influence of elites: we want to understand how personal troubles become public problems, the intersection of history and biography. From individual to society: does(cid:374)"t just affe(cid:272)t the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual, (cid:271)ut fa(cid:373)ily, et(cid:272). Social institutions: systems or networks that work to organize groups of people. Lecture 2: conceptual and theoretical foundations: origins of sociology, neighboring disciplines, sociological theory, classic and contemporary traditions, why do we need theory, building causal explanations, benefits of rival theoretical perspectives. Macrosociology: microsociology understands small group, macrosociology looks at social dynamics interactions. Variation within sociology across whole societies: very quantitative, very historical. Positivism: building theory to understand how social. Emile durkheim: division of labor affects more than just how goods are produced, determines the form of social solidarity. Mechanical solidarity: relatively low levels of division of labor, all members share the same norms, consequence: deviance is repress with great.
