SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Interactionism, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Social Fact

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Nathan Young

Document Summary

Part a: what is a social fact? illustrate with an example. Social theory : a set of logically interelated statements that attempts to describe, explain, and (occasionally) predict social events. In building their, sociologist are guided byone or more theoretical perspective. The ability to see the relationship between personal experiences and larger society. Help is to understnd how seemly personal troupes are actually related to larger trends, making the public issues. Help us to destinies between personal trouble and social. Part b: sociology emerged as an academic discipline in respons in to a series of historical transformation. what are they? explain how the left tp the development of sociology. Led to emergence to many new social problems, such as. Political revolutions: suggested that social change was possible and that people were responsible for organizing society. Functionalist: society s an organized, stable, well-integrated.