SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Body, Bourgeoisie, Erving Goffman
8 Dec 2013
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Definitions: binary thinking, traditional society, modern society, social solidarity, functionalism, anomie, organic solidarity, proletariat, alienation, formal rationality, traditional authority, charismatic authority, verstehen, microsociology, intersubjectivity. To identify basic functions to fulfill in society. The individual is the organ of a much larger organism. Wage workers who came from country to city. To explain the social world by examining how individuals perceive it. How people orient their behaviour to what they think others think. Sociologists: antonio gramsci, mills, augustus comte, social thinking stages, herbert spencer, jean baudrillard, pierre bourdieu, george ritzer, dorothy smith, emile durkheim, max weber. Sociology must address social problems by linking individual and how society is organized. Father of sociology, but life took downward turn & refuted. Combined real life obs. with logical systematic thought where natural laws made the world orderly and predictable. Created social thinking stages: world is run by supernatural powers, religion philosophy, apply scientific knowledge to nature laws.
