SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 1 Notes
Document Summary
People can better understand and recognize their own experiences and fate by locating them in context. The study of social facts: social facts- ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual , social facts do not originate with the people experiencing them. They have a life that extends beyond the individuals who carry them out: the also have coercive power. They make their power known by the difficulty people experience trying to do tings and thin in different ways: currents of opinion- the state of affairs with regard to some way of being. The sociological consciousness: we believe love is violent, irresistible emotion that strikes at random; however love is guided by considerations of age, sex, height, income, education, race and so on. Sociology emerged in part as reaction to the industrial revolution an ongoing and evolving social force that transformed society, human behavior, and interaction in incalculable ways.
