SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: French Revolution, Auguste Comte, Scientific Revolution
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Sociology is the study of how society impacts the self, and how individuals, groups add back to society. Many things goes into the society: institutions: an organized set of practices that occur and reoccur over time, such that what is (acquired) created over that time is (more significant) bigger than the individuals that create it. Religion, education system, universities, medical systems, government. They will follow a sort of ideology. Institutions have structural properties almost has a physical reality to it, it sets. Individuals in the institutions should step up to make sure that the rules are upheld limits and constrains the things we can do (rules) schemas: culture, economies. Two core fundamental units of analysis that go into sociology is: Sociology is not psychology, it is not primarily concerned with the psychological mental states of individuals looks for patterns and explain phenomenon based on social structures. Tries to use social dimensions with the psychological ways.
