SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Solidarity, Pseudoscience, Sexual Orientation
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What is sociology: the systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. Is sociology a pseudoscience : true part- hypothesis, pretend to be science, falsified otherwise not scientific, can"t prove some theories are better than others, sociology can never be a real science. How we are connected to social wars- positivity & reflexivity. Certain things/assumptions you have to believe in. Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Identify the social context in which we live in and how these contexts shape our lives. Sociological imagination: a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Interconnecting between the life of an individual and the history of society: job loss, micro- family (small, meso-university of toronto (bigger structures, faculty members, macro- mayor, global- economic relations, war trade org.
