SOCI-1015EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rural Sociology, Social Fact, Macrosociology
16 Jun 2018
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SOCI-1015
September 14th, 2017
Early Women Sociologists and the Writing of Gender in Canada
•First Canadian woman to obtain a PhD in Sociology (U of Chicago): Annie MacLean
(1870-1934)
•First woman hired as a sociologist at a Canadian uni(U of T): Aileen Ross(1902-1995)
•Founder of rural sociology in Canada: Helen C Abell (1917-2005)
Different Approaches or Levels of Analysis of Sociology
•2 MAJOR DIVISIONS
•Macrosociology: focuses on big picture
•Microsociology: focuses on plans, motivations, actions and interactions
Different kinds of sociology
•Structural functionalism
•3 key people:
•Emile Durkheim(1858-1917)
•Classified as a founder of sociology
•Suicide (1897) suicide= social fact
•Certain groups within society were more likely to commit suicide
•military officers, protestants, and unmarried people
•Correlation between suicide and degree of connection to society as well as
commitment
•coined term social fact
•Patterned ways of acting, thinking, and/or feeling that exist outside the individual
but exert social control over people
•Developed prior to/separate from individual
•seen as a characteristic of a particular group
•has power- pushes individuals to act (ie family)
•Robert K Merton (1910-2003)
•3 types of functions a structure can produce:
•Manifest Function: intended and recognized
•Latent Functions: unintended & unrecognized
