SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feminist Theory, Antonio Gramsci, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Religion/church were responsible for ideas and your understanding of the world. Tech such as the printing press allowed ideas to be mass produced and sent to people. View of social behaviour of daily interactions and how they are interpreted by others. The different parts of an organization and the people between them. Marxist/conflict: social conflict and the role it plays in society. Feminist theory: focus on gender inequality and understanding gender relationships. Society and societal development is one of the great steps of evolution. Societal organization is different from mechanisms that perform activities. Aspects of human societies: societies are influenced by their environment in a variety of ways. Environments are everything external to a population that affects it: humans possess a genetic heritage that influences our actions, humans are able to create cultural heritage which gives us unique qualities. Animals signal with movements, sounds, odors, etc. Symbols are genetically determined, but the form and meaning attached are not.