SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Class Conflict, Verstehen, Social Statics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

The origins of sociology: social transforma5ons. Poli5cal revolu5ons: suggested that people could change society. Industrial revolu5on and urbaniza5on: presented social thinkers with a host of pressing social problems crying out for a solu5on. Scien5 c revolu5on: suggested that a science of society was possible: main founders . 1: auguste comte (1798- 1857, coined the word sociology but preferred the term. Social physics: sought to do a science of society, social sta/cs (order and stability) and dynamics (con ict and change) Sorbonne in paris: trained the rst students in, created the rst academic the discipline sociological journal, The mo5ves that underlie human behaviour. The ways in which people interpret and explain their own behaviour and that of others. What ques5on(s) to ask. And how we should ask them : each perspec5ve interprets reality and explains data in a di erent way. Major classical paradigms or perspec5ves in sociology: func5onalist perspec5ve, con ict perspec5ve, symbolic interac5onist perspec5ve, feminist perspec5ve.