CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Symbolic Interactionism, Sociological Theory
25 Nov 2016
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The social world guides all our life choices. For example, emile durkheim"s research showed that the suicide rate was strongly influenced by the extent to which people were socially integrated with others: window on the world global map 1 1: women"s. A look around the world shows that childbearing is not a personal choice. Women living in poor countries have many more children than women living in rich nations. E. the greater people"s social marginality, the better able they are to use the sociological perspective. Just as social change encourages sociological thinking, sociological thinking can bring about social change. A. sociologists also strive to see issues in global historical perspective, defined as the study of the larger world and our society"s place in it. The power of the sociological perspective lies not just in changing individual lives but in transforming society. We cannot impose our will on the world.
