SOCI 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Talcott Parsons, Auguste Comte, Sociological Perspectives
12 Apr 2016
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Society: group of individuals living in a deined territory who share social structures and interact with one another. Sociological imagination: ability to understand how social forces inluence the lives on individuals (i. e. , how outside forces contribute to individual situaions: coined by c. wright mills. Debunking: pracice of looking beyond the surface/obvious explanaion to seek a deeper explanaion: coined by peter berger. Functionalism: views society as a system of inter-related parts. Conflict: views society as composed of various groups that are in constant struggle over scarce resources. Symbolic interactionism: focuses on how individuals interact with others in their everyday lives. Feminism: focuses on gender inequaliies which are built into the social structure. Society"s norms and values provide the foundaion for the rules and laws that society creates. Mile durkheim: solidarity holds a society together because individuals view themselves as uniied, classic study of suicide. Social facts: social sources or causes of behaviour (e. g. , gender, ethnicity, marital status)
