KP211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organism, Nonverbal Communication, Dynamic Equilibrium
18 Jan 2019
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How to think sociologically: important concepts. What are major theories: who are they historically connected to. Sport gives an aim for individuals and groups: everyone needs direction and purpose, commonality, you can form a group from that commonality. Sport provides a rich array of data that can be analyzed: find the xed patters of connection, easier to measure than other things, natural laboratory to test properties of social relations (elias and dunning) Sport occupies arguable the greatest cultural institution in forming groups: play is and creates order (huizinga, good way to create social organization, it is a natural activity meaning its most important and most impactful. Culture: groups shared practices, values and beliefs, passed onto us since they work, they are stable since they provide bene t, ie) language. Social facts: laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals etc, how do these facts in uence social institutions, dictates our decisions. Enlightenment era: 17th and 18th century: social philosophers.
