SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada 2011 Census, Scientific Revolution, Special Forces
27 Sep 2016
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What is sociology? systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Shift perspectives from personal to social to see their interaction. Problem with this definition: we have many societies. Societies are not statistic: social forces are always changing and mutating for example. legalization of gay marriages sociological perspective is a view based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger network in which we all live. What is society? is not a tangible entity not like a tree or chair we cant point and say there is society, itswhat we. A set of forces exerted by people over one another and themselves that encourage particular behavior. Each of us to some extent at least have what some sociologists refer to as agency: the assumption that individuals have the ability to alter their socially constructed lives. Economy: social force that we can"t see we can see it at work. After gm closed the unemployment in st. catharine"s.
