SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Symbolic Interactionism, Antipositivism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

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Sociology is the systematic study of human society. Pete berger explained that the sociological perspective is seeing the general in the particular. This meant that sociologists identify general patterns in the behavior of particular individuals. Sociologists recognized that society acts differently depending on the category of people (ex: children compared to adults, women versus men ). We begin to think sociologically when we realize that our individual life experiences are shaped by the society in which we live- as well by the general categories in which we fall. (p. 5) Global perspective is the study of the larger world and our society"s place in it. High income countries are the nations with the highest overall standard of living. These nations produce the most of the world"s good and services, and the people that live there, own most of the planet"s wealth. Middle-income countries are the nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole.