SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Forces, Bulgarian Lev, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3118
• Professor: Jean- François Chapman

Document Summary

Soc 3118 lecture 3 principles of the life course. Intro of the class: we cannot understand the life-course if we don"t understand the conditions that we life in, these differ in different countries (usa, ca vs. latin america or asia), we are a very individualistic society. In medieval europe, lineage, gender, social status and other attributes relevant to identity were all relatively fixed: the life-span was pretty short. If your life is ever going to change for the better, you"ll have to take changes. It is not only in terms of the absence of rites that life passages differ from comparable processes in traditional contexts. This started changing: 3) changes in the composition of the u. s. and other populations. Trajectories: the trajectories of education and work, family and residences that are followed by individuals and groups through society, these pathways are shaped by historical forces and are often structured by social institutions.