SOSC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Individualism, Critical Thinking

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Colline Terry

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Social institutions channel and control our behaviour through a variety of social control mechanisms, ex. Behaviour is controlled by institutionalization of education, which gives professors authority to invoke certain sanctions. Objective reality whe(cid:374) we si(cid:373)ply a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept that the (cid:862)reality(cid:863) that awe are (cid:271)or(cid:374) i(cid:374)to a(cid:374)d what we experience as we grow up. Individualism a moral stance that stresses the importance of individual self-reliance and independence. Critical thinking the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement, for this you need observation, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, explanation, etc. Value systems when we understand that knowledge is relative rather than absolute, we can also see that knowledge is a set of claims that are socially constructed.