SOC 1011V Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Ethnography, Microsociology
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Social facts amenable to scientific research: goal would be to discern abstract social laws that undergirded social behavior. "social darwinism" because he thought living things adapted to their environments and evolved through time: classical period, the era of the 1800s. Sociology becomes a discipline: people talking about themselves as sociologists. Industrial revolution played a major part in the development of this. Sociology is attempting to figure out what is happening by observing rapid social change and observing patterns and rules that are governing the new ways of life: emile durkheim, established sociology as a discipline. First major study: demonstrated that social bonds existed in all types of society. Form that the bonds take can vary by type of society. Still had a labor division system, but the thing that held them together was shared beliefs and values, instead of the division of labor.
