SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Scientific Revolution
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Systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Informs about social structures, behaviour, and culture, etc. Seeing the general in the particular and the strange in the familiar. Identifies the social contexts in which we live and how these contexts shape our lives. The quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures. Social structure: relatively stable patterns of social relations. Interconnection between the life of an individual and the history of society. Suicide is more than just an individual act of desperation resulting from a psychological disorder. Suicide rates are strongly influenced by social forces. Suicide rates varied as a result of differences in the degree of social solidarity in different categories of the population. Social solidarity: the degree to which group members share beliefs and values, and the intensity and frequency of their interaction. Values: ideas about what is good and bad, right and wrong.
