SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Auguste Comte, Ida B. Wells, Metaphysical Society

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

Seeing sociologically: marginality and crisis: people at the margins of social life are aware of social patterns that others rarely think about, periods of change or crisis encourage us to use the sociological perspective. Sociology has played an important role in the development of canadian life. A background in sociology is excellent preparation for: teaching and doing research, doctors, nurses, and technicians, criminal justice, advertising, banking, business, education, government, journalism, law, public relations, and personnel management. Impersonal social world: political change, shift in focus from moral obligation to god and monarch to the pursuit of self-interest, a new awareness of society, england, france, and germany. Auguste comte (1798- 1857) sociology to study modern social reality scientifically. Positivism: a way of understanding based on science. Society operates according to its own laws, much like the physical world, to gravity and other laws of nature. Teaching and research began first in quebec.