SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Fact, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Order
25 Jun 2020
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Architecture of a theory: concepts- the building blocks. Abstract categories of thought that can be applied to and cognitively organize many different situations: propositions- the scaffolding. Statements or hypotheses for how social things happen. Sometimes take the shape of testable hypotheses. Soc theory originates around the turn of the 18th/19th centuries. In response to major societal changes in a number of different spheres. Changes now associated with transition to modernity . In theory, anyone with the intellectual skills and fortitude. In practice, st has been mostly white, upper-class men. Social order is the product of the ongoing, coordinated activities of individuals. Social order is also greater than the sum of its parts; has an existence and influence over and above the individuals who create it. Sociology is the study of social facts . Social facts are: external to the individual, coercive directs/constrains individual behavior; resistant to individual will. Examples of social facts: sports, school, law, money.
