SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Protestant Work Ethic, Feminist Theory, The Sociological Imagination
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Sociology: the systematic study of human behavior in social context. Social relations among people powerfully influence suicide rates: the sociological explanation of suicide: suicide is more than just an individual act of desperation resulting from psychological disorder. Suicide is actually strongly influenced by social forces: durkheim proved this by examining the association between rates of suicide and rates of psychological disorder form different groups. From personal troubles to social structures: patterns of social relations affect your innermost thoughts and feelings, influence your actions, and thus help shape who you are. In ancient and medieval times, philosophers from diverse civilizations had sketched blueprints for the ideal society. Important early figures in the history of sociology: karl marx, emile. Durkheim, and marx weber = all lived in the period from 1820 to 1920, they witnessed various phases of europe"s wrenching transition to industrial capitalism, and wanted to explain it.
