SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kopi Luwak, Auguste Comte, Zip Code

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Dana Sawchuk

Document Summary

Sociology = study of society: (cid:862)s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) stud(cid:455) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t(cid:863) Social construction of reality: (cid:862)people creativity shape reality as they interact with one another in the context of certain social group or culture. Biography history: microstructures (meso, macro, global) How can we study the drinking of coffee sociologically: symbolic value, rituals (ex: coffee in the morning for americans, social interaction getting together to socialize (ex: coffee in the afternoon for. Americans: use as a drug, social acceptance depends on culture (ex. What was the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t for the (cid:862)(cid:271)irth(cid:863) of so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455)? (auguste comte) First person to use the word sociology (1838) Before: imagine what should be, after: analyze what it actually is. Past: one person does the whole job (ex. making a pair of shoes), now: it takes several people to make a product (assembly line: organic solidarity. Manifest vs. latent functions: manifest: recognized & intended, latent: unrecognized & unintended.