SOCL 2001 Lecture : SOCL 2001 Introductory Socl Sociology Notes 2
Document Summary
Sociology is the scientific study of social life. The industrial revolution is one of the biggest jumpstarts of sociology. People were leaving farms and coming to cities to get new jobs. Instead of being farmers they were now factory worker or craftsmen. Because of this transformation to factory production, cities exploded in size (ex: london). In the beginnings, there were no regulations for factory workers. There was also high pollution in the cities. During the middle ages, there was no such thing as unemployment. With industrialization it was possible for people to be out of work. Industrialization caused dramatic changes in the way of life. All sociologists are trying to discover governing laws of human behavior. Auguste comte- frenchman who coined the term sociologie in 1884. He wanted to take the scientific method and apply it to society to figure out how society works. Structural-functionalism the different parts of society function to maintain the society as a whole (ex: organs).
