SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Structural Level, Deindustrialization, Mars Cube One

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: cherylteelucksingh

Document Summary

Sociology is the systematic study of human society. Society consists of people who interact in a defined territory and shared culture (ways of life, including basic beliefs and values) Urbanization is the process by which a society is transformed from one organized around rural activities to one organized around urban activities: process of change. Examine cities: marco/ structural level & micro: macro: ex. Homelessness (what is the reason for homelessness: micro: communities, houses, ex. Week 2: sociology and the city (cont, how people, groups, families, and institutions relate to each other, issues of inequality and advantages resulting from class, race, and gender issues relating to who hold power. After 1815, new immigrants and the rise of the orange order: at the end toronto benefits by population increase, )reland: orange order dominated anti-pro, toronto: industrialization and growth (1851 1914) 1851 beginning of railway construction in toronto.