SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Capital, George Herbert Mead, Pierre Bourdieu
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Sociology is the systematic study of human action in context, meaning that it follows guidelines as to how to accumulation knowledge about the human race. Sociology makes sense of what people do, feel, and think, as it examines facets of history, culture, economy, and social contexts. Sociologists examine social patterns and variations and are fascinated by how forms of order are established in our lives and how various variables impact the way individuals or groups act or think. People make choices every day, which sociologists call agency, the ability of individuals to make choices. However, agency does not constitute all of why people choose to do what they do. The other half is structure, how our social location constrains the types of opportunities that we have and how it in uences all of our choices. For examples, every sport has rules that lay out what is or isn"t allowed in the game.
