SOCI 1002H Lecture 1: SOCI 1002 Lecture 1

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Lecture 1
Looking Back at SOCI 1001
Society as Object of Study:
European context: rise of natural sciences
Systematic study of an observable reality
Opposed centralized authority of Church (change of power)
Traditional authority and beliefs
Industrial Revolution: rise of capitalism
Impacts upon social relations, new forms of power
Social Physics:
To develop a systematic approach to investigating and explaining “the social”
Life is not random or arbitrary, nor is it predetermined 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
Social Structure and Interaction:
Social structure made up of institutions that organize/manage/discipline our interactions
Culture is the content that fills up the structure
Rules of engagement: norms, values, language
Relations of Power:
Ability to achieve your will despite resistance of others (privilege)
Power is achieved through the control of resources of value
2 fields: material and micro (status)
The unquiet ghost of Marx:
Social impacts of waged labour system (capitalism)
Competition over scarcity of work leads to exploitation of workers
Uprising of workers
Marx did not anticipate middle class
Class structure of capitalism: economic structure and control of access to health
Today: deep inequality
Emile Durkheim:
First book: Suicide
No such thing as individual, only society
Increased solidarity increased suicide rates
Hyper Individualism is toxic
Anomie: lack of norms
1002: What’s Different?
Time: matter of management, to judge of character
Theorizing Freedom:
Types of freedoms:
Legal freedoms: due process
Free market: work, consume, sell
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Society as object of study: european context: rise of natural sciences, systematic study of an observable reality, opposed centralized authority of church (change of power, traditional authority and beliefs. Impacts upon social relations, new forms of power. Social structure and interaction: social structure made up of institutions that organize/manage/discipline our interactions, culture is the content that fills up the structure, rules of engagement: norms, values, language. Relations of power: ability to achieve your will despite resistance of others (privilege, power is achieved through the control of resources of value, 2 fields: material and micro (status) Emile durkheim: first book: suicide, no such thing as individual, only society. Increased solidarity increased suicide rates: hyper individualism is toxic, anomie: lack of norms. 1002: what"s different: time: matter of management, to judge of character. Theorizing freedom: types of freedoms, legal freedoms: due process, free market: work, consume, sell, academic freedom: expression, democratic freedom: vote, sociological approach:

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