SOCI 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Harriet Martineau, George Herbert Mead, Protestant Work Ethic
14 Oct 2016
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Sociology systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Social causes are distinct from physical and emotional causes. Sociologists have explained fashion cycles in four ways. Definition sociological school of thought that stresses how human behaviour is governed by social structures that are based mainly on shared values and that contribute to social stability. Wealthy clients who wear expensive, new fashions can distinguish themselves from people who are less well off. Help to preserve ordered layering of society into classes. Social class position people occupy in a hierarchy that is shaped by economic criteria, including wealth and income. Functionalism no longer provides satisfying explanation of fashion cycles. Definition sociological school of thought that focuses on how large social structures, such as the relations among classes, produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in others. Theory conjecture about the way observed facts are related.
