SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Utopia, Metanarrative, Social Inequality
30 Sep 2016
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Chapter 1: sociology - the systematic study of society, using the sociological imagination. Can be thought of as the most comprehensive of social sciences. Society is greater than the sum of its parts, is a web of connections in all of its parts in which they interact and the nature of the interactions contribute to a speci c phenomena of interests. Studying and analyzing the linkage between individual experiences and a large sociocultural forces. Enlightenment - a time of social, political, and economic reform. In these times of change intellectuals began to study an explanation for the cages and consequences. Developed out of philosophy, economics, history, psychology, and law! Formations of distinct disciplines developed in the 20th century. Pre distinction, it was a ! general study of observing all aspects of society around them. eventually it broke off into ! different and distinct disciplines.
