SOC-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Internet Fraud, Nationstates, Mcdonaldization
23 Apr 2016
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Chapter 1: an introduction to sociology in the global age. Sociology aims to identify the place of an individual within society, and society"s effect on the individual; due to globalization, sociology has developed an increasingly global perspective. What you think and do as an individual is affected by what is happening around you. Not only are you affected by events, but you have an impact on large-scale structures and processes. Butterfly effect: far-ranging or even global impact of a small change in a specific location, over both time and distance (i. e. small standing up can lead to an outright revolution) Sociology: systematic study of the ways in which people are affected by, and affect the social structures and social processes that are associated with the groups, organizations, cultures, societies, and world in which they exist. The changing nature of the social world- and sociology. Long-term sociology interests: deviance, crime, industry, production, work, family, city [des.
