SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nacirema, Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution

• School: UTSC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCA03Y3
• Professor: Kathy Liddle

Document Summary

Miner, horace "body ritual among the nacirema" ritual, medicine. Seeing the strange in the familiar :walk into utsc, alien walk in. Everyone sits and listens to one lecturer. ---looks like a kind of ceremony. Everyone kept silence while the older person talks. --strict military training. A lot of people uses some kind of machines to type all the time. People sit close to each other and get along. Qualitative: communicating with people, talking, hanging out, observe. Annie marion maclean: women and work(low wages) ; children and work. Emile durkheim: suicide(data from different countries and give some conclusion) Protestant or catholic? protestant may be more negative? (protestant) Good or bad economy? good economy means more employment, less suicide? (bad economy) Durkheim"s research method for suicide: examined official records kept on number and methods of suicides, along with information about population and context -->quantitative, macrosociology.