SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Michel Foucault, Public Sociology, Totalitarianism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Sociologists also investigate and challenge the social patterns that other people perceive. Sociology can"t say what is moral, or right . There isn"t a real scientific way of measuring that, but it can tell us who is in favour of, for example, same sex marriage. Sociology is the social science that studies development, structure, and functioning of human society. At this point, it is enough to know that sociology involves looking for and looking at patterns. In social variables, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. In social institutions, such as education, religion, and the family; and. Why study sociology (page 8: the heart of sociology: the sociological imagination (page 8) Sociological imagination: the capacity to shift from the perspective of the personal experience to the grander, societal scale that has caused or influenced that personal experience: the origins of sociology (page 10)