SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wdtk, Class Conflict, Industrial Revolution
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Sociological imagination: the quality of mind that enable one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures. Industrial revolution: began in britain in the 1780, economic transformation, increase in technology and science, creation of factories, working class. There is a lack of widely shared code of morality in society: altruistic suicide: type of suicide when norms tightly govern behaviour (soldiers give up their life for their comrades. Social structure: social patterns that durkheim tried to illustrate was social solidarity. Social stability: social structures sometimes maintain or fail to maintain social stability (high social solidarity contributes to social order. Growth of industries and cities caused population movements, erosion of religious beliefs, and other changes that lowered the level of social solidarity. For durkheim, suicide was symptoms of these larger social ills) According to weber, the ethic had the unintended effect of increasing savings and investment, thus stimulating capital growth.
