SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Depression, Auguste Comte, The Sociological Imagination

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Subjective, the way in which we see things can differ between people. Taken for granted thinking = familiar understandings. Subjective shaping of how you understand the world. Your social world is not shared by everyone. Coined by auguste comte (1798-1857), study of human experience. Non contractual element of a contract (durkheim) Rights, obligations, social relations, terms of engagement, social order. The way in which we arrange our daily lives and our society. Because of subjectivists, extra responsibility needed to gather information as accurately as possible. Socially constructed, can be challenged and changed, by virtue of being subjective, understandings can be subverted. When we repeat behaviour in a certain way it become routine, regularized, widely adopted. (berger and luckmann) Concepts: helps us understand complex social phenomena. Skills: complex and critical thinking skills, research skills, theorizing skills. Topics: allow us to focus on different social interactions, social issues, etc, Reality: depends on the lens through which you look!