SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Auguste Comte, Social Inequality, Great Depression

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

Document Summary

Sociology: is the systematic study of human society. Sociology teaches us that the social world guides all our life choices. Peter berger described the sociological perspective as seeing the general in particular- he meant that sociologists identify general patterns in the behaviour of particular individuals. Sociologists recognize that society acts differently on various categories of people. The behaviour of a particular individual must be understood in terms of social, cultural, or structural context of military life. Durkheim found that some categories of people were more likely than others to take their own lives, men, protestants, wealthy people and the unmarried had much higher suicide rates than catholics, jew, poor, and married individuals. Categories of people with strong social ties had low suicide rates. In durkeheim time, freedom weakens social ties and men had a lot of freedom higher suicide rates.