SOCY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Contemporary Sociology, Industrial Revolution, Culture Industry
11 Oct 2018
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Everything you do and think as an individual is affected by what is happening in groups, organizations, cultures, societies, and the world. You are not only affected by larger events, but also capable to some degree of having an impact on large-scale structures and processes. A relatively small change in a specific location can have far-ranging, even global, effects over both time and distance. The systematic study of the ways in which people are affected by and affect the social structures and social processes associated with the groups, organizations, cultures, societies, and world in which they exist. The changing nature of the social world and sociology. Sociology deals with contemporary phenomena, but its deep historical roots have led to many long-term interests. Early sociologists concentrated on factories, the production that took place in those settings, and those who worked there.
