SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Economics Association, Auguste Comte, Social Inequality
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*based on lecture and chapter notes: the sociological perspecive. Sociology the systemaic study of human society. Sociological perspecive seeing the general in the paricular (peter berger) Sociologists idenify general paterns in the behaviour of paricular individuals. Sociologists recognize that society acts diferently on various categories. The behaviour of a paricular individual must be understood in terms of the social, cultural or structural context of military life: seeing the strange in the familiar. Giving up idea that human behaviour is simply a mater of what people decide to do. Understanding that society shapes our lives, what we think and do: seeing society in our everyday lives. The power of society to shape even our most private choices, example, the number of children that canadian women have: seeing sociologically: marginality and crisis. People at the margins of social life are aware of social paterns that others rarely think about.
