SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic System, Xenophanes, Personal Advertisement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Looks the the interplay among regimes, institutions, political opportunity structure and repertoires. The relationships between humans and the social organizations they inhabit. The interaction between humans and their social environment. The study of human societies using empirical investigation and critical analysis. Backing up the data, don"t take things at face value. According to sociologists many of the things we do are processes that extend beyond our individual choices, and are rooted in the structural conditions of the social, political, and economic order in which we live. Accordingly, one of the roles of sociology is to uncover these structural conditions. Get rid of other opinions, so that they are not objective or judgmental. To this end, systematic research, and a value free approach is applied. Structural aspects of society are enduring patterns of social relations and institutions. Society is organised through these patterns, within which individual and group action is carried on.