SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim
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What is sociology: term coined by french social thinker auguste comte in 1838, the systematic study of human behavior in social context. Sociologists attempt to answer questions we have about the social world. The sociological imagination: the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures and forces, global structures, macrostructures, mesostructures, microstructures. In canada, the gap between youth and unemployment has reached the widest gap in. Male/ female graduates from school, but after a year of unsuccessfully trying to find a job, joins a gang/ sex trade to make money. Emile durkheim: argued that human behavior is shaped by social facts and demonstrated that suicide rates varied with different degrees of social solidarity in different population categories. Origins of the sociological imagination: scientific revolution (circa 1550) Suggested the possibility of a science of society: democratic revolution (circa 1750) Suggested that people could intervene to improve society: industrial revolution (circa 1775)
