SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solidarity, Anomie, Social Physics
10 Jan 2017
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Sociology seeks to disentangle complex relationships between ourselves and society. Societal structure is made up of institutions that organize/ manage/ discipline our interactions. Culture is the content that fills up the structure: rules of engagement. Ability to achieve your will despite resistance of others. Power is achieved through the control of resources of value: markets, weapons, media, law, votes, workers, consumers, status, freedom, self-determination. Proximal power: family, peer groups, teachers. Digital power: institutions [ex. / laws, statuses, norms. To develop a systematic approach to investigating and explaining the social": life is not random or arbitrary, nor is it pre-determined or natural. Society as an organism to be studied scientifically. Learn how the social world is organized and constructed, and our role in that process: society as object of study. European context: rise of natural sciences: systematic study of an observable reality. Opposed centralized authority of church: traditional authority and beliefs.
