SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Economics Association, Auguste Comte, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the paricular: sociologists idenify general social paterns in the behaviour of paricular individuals. Understanding the social life of a irst year undergrad student (to live in res, be away from home, etc. ) No way to look at every single undergrad so you would ask a few and then generalize from that group. Seeing the strange in the familiar: giving up the idea that human behaviour is simply a mater of what people decide to do, understanding that society shapes our lives. Seeing personal choice in social context: the power of society to shape even our most private choices. Seeing sociologically: marginality and crisis: people at the margins of social life are aware of social paterns that others rarely think about, periods of change or crisis encourage us to use the sociological perspecive. Sociology has played an important role in the development of canadian public policy.