SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Laud Humphreys, Participant Observation, Milgram Experiment
15 Sep 2017
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Sociology: making meaning of the world and understanding and studying pattern of behaviors in human society. Use scientific method to study (more systematic) the rules of social interaction: social interactions (face to face interactions through observations and asking questions) identity is the result of you observing people who are like/ not like you. Sociological imagination (we ca(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d people"s personal lives without understanding the context we live in: structural arrangements to shape our behavior, perspective (going beyond common sense, not use individual analysis. Durkheim study of suicide: having strong social ties decreases chances of suicide, social arrangements affects personal choices. We can look beyond personal choices, and see how social interactions shape our personal decisions. Functionalism macroanalysis (understand how interactions in society produce order and maintain stability in our society) How society is organized through looking at mainly institutions. Manifest: obvious (elements that society are supposed to do.
