REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Capital, Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman

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Systematic study of social behaviour and human groups. Others on how social structures constrain human behaviour and relationships. Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups. It focuses primarily on the influence of social relationships on people"s attitudes and behavior and on how societies are established and change. Science: body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation. Natural science: study of physical features of nature and the ways they interact and change. Social science: study of social features of humans and the ways they interact and change. What is the sociological evidence: wright mills (1959) The vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society. What does he mean by this: worldview is limited, sociologists examine: Social structures : understanding private issues public issues . Transforms private problem (e. g. , why was i bullied?) into larger questions about the circumstances that contribute to a process or outcome (public issue)

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