SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Christine De Pizan, Barry Wellman, Raymond Breton
1 Dec 2011
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It shows us that the society around us influences how we act and even what we think and how we feel. Learning to see the world sociologically is useful in many ways and it is also fun! The same thing as sociological perspective seeing the general in the particular. The study of the larger world and our society"s place in it. Seeing the community of orangeville and how it relates to ontario and canada and how it relates to the world. *where we live shapes the lives we lead. *many social problems that we face in canada are far more serious elsewhere. *thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves. High-income countries *high standards of living (60 countries including us, cda, argentina and more) Middle-income countries *standard of living is about average (76 countries, many in eastern europe, 7 in africa and almost all of asia and central and south america)
