SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Change, Raymond Breton, Sociological Theory

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

Document Summary

The sociological perspecive: seeing the general in the paricular. Peter berger described the sociological perspecive as: seeing the general in the paricular. By this, he meant that sociologist idenify general paterns in the behaviour of paricular individuals. Society acts diferently on various categories of people (e. g. rich, poor, young, female etc) We live in an individualisic society learning to see how society afects us may take a bit of pracice. E. g. when asked why did you pick that university . Other factors include: socio-economic background, race, region: seeing personal choice in social context. E. g. child bearing diferences in diferent countries due to factors. E. g. society can inluence suicide (emile durkheim study) Durkheim explained the diferences in terms of social integraion: categories of people with strong social ies had low suicide rates and more individualisic categories of people had high rates. Thus, we observe general social paterns in even the most personal acions in ppl: seeing sociology: marginality and crisis.