SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Socioeconomic Status, Macrosociology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the particular is the ability to look at seemingly unique events (particular) and then recognizing the larger (general) features involved. Think about what is familiar and see it as strange. Using dating splitting bill as a vehicle to discuss: gender norms, patriarchy. Structure: network of relatively stable opportunities and constraints influencing our individual behaviour. Agency: idea that each of us has to some extent ability to alter our socially constructed view. Our perception of ourselves and others are the products of many factors: Hard science should be applied to the social world. Clement- prof in carleton: interest in the interactions of politics, government and soc and cult constitution of markets institutions and markets. Influenced by american sociology (leftists in us migrated here early on) Greater focus on macrosociology as well as feminist ideas. You call yourself a feminist yet you"ve never been arrested . Capitalism as a defining feature of the global economy.