SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: African Americans, Jane Addams, Macrosociology
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Applying analysis to things done without thought. To see connections between personal experience and history. Complex group of interdependent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves. Social positions set of stories we tell ourselves. Social relations are a network of ties and the social role is a grand narrative that unifies these stories within the network. Grand narrative is sum of individual stories told between pairs of individuals: example: changing your mother"s age, example: college made p of a series of stories within social networks. Legal system, primary and secondary educational system, educational testing service and act, wage labor market, english. Invented social physics/positivism: need to make moral sense of the social order in a time of declining religious authority, we can determine right or wrong without god. Stage 1 (theological): divine will, everything is god"s plan. Stage 2: metaphysical: human behavior governed by natural, biological instincts. Needed to strip away society to understand drives and instincts.
