SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education, Industrial Revolution, Anomie

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas Macias

Document Summary

Social movements (ppl not represented >> work to change society) What kind of people make up society? race/ethnicity (also part of structure, part of history) Socioeconomic class (think bernie - differences between class) Gender (becoming part of social movements and change) Debt (changing laws increases availability of debt) Look outside selves to understand problems: troubles (individual) vs. issues (social) Perhaps still happening, migration from rural to urban. Emile durkheim (1858 - 1917) - first sociologist . Objective look at religion, how it shaped society. Aspects of social life external to individuals. The empirical basis of sociology as a science - still a struggle. Lack of social integration associated with higher rates of suicide - higher social integration = lower suicide. Higher rate bc more individual relationships >> less social integration. Anomie - aimlessness, despair, and lack of social integration brought on by modern life. A moral being is a social being .