SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mass Society, Consumerism, Social Forces
10 Feb 2017
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The challenges of studying society how taken for granted assumptions and beliefs prevent us from seeing with fresh eyes. The importance of studying the society we live in, and understanding how society influences our life paths and life chances, desires and our opinions about the world. History as progress and regress (list on pg 8 & 9) How does sociology study society: methods and concepts, natural laws versus social laws, types of things sociology studies (pgs 10 & Modern society: cooperation versus conflict efficiency versus disorganization and corruption, progress versus regress, order versus chaos. Modern mass society (cid:862)(cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t li(cid:448)e i(cid:374) the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try a(cid:374)y(cid:373)ore(cid:863) urbanization and population concentration. The values of critical social science: life over death, progress over regress, social justice over domination and control. Self and society free will versus social forces. The sociological imagination our lives are strongly influenced by historical and social situations.
