SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Georg Simmel, Kaiser Roll, Microsociology
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* sociology focuses on understanding the society that shapes our lives. * sociologists try to answer questions by studying societies methodically and carefully, want to understand how societies change and how people"s lives change with them. * c. wright mills came up with the sociological imagination which says that we need to deal with personal problems with the awareness that we share these problems and their solutions with others. Sociology: the systematic study of social behavior in human societies ranging from small groups to large corporations and even whole societies. Macrosociology: the study of large social organizations (ex. the roman catholic church) and large social categories (ex. the elderly, college students), focus on social patterns that are formed over long time periods. Microsociology: focuses on the typical processes and patterns of face to face interaction in small groups (ex. marriage, clique, rst date), study common every day interactions that produce lasting patterns.
