SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solidarity, Social Physics, Arson
11 Jan 2017
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Sociology seeks to disentangle complex relationships between ourselves and society. Social structure made up of institutions that organize/manage/discipline our interactions. Culture is the content that fills up the structure. 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 and status, freedom, self- determination. Sites of power: context of self determination. Distal power: institutions (e. g. 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 an object of study: European context: rise of natural sciences, systematic study of an observable reality. Opposed centralized authority of church, traditional authority and beliefs.
