SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Research, Class Consciousness, Class Conflict

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Gregory Bird

Document Summary

Sociological perspective: examines patterns of social relationships, provides a unique and enlightening perspective on social events that differs from commonsense understanding, can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world. Example: sociological analysis of suicide: examines patterns of social relations that might encourage or inhibit suicide, commonsense knowledge: suicide is an act that is anti-social and non-social. Suicide is selfish isolated act that has nothing to do with society: person who commits suicide is similar to an island individuals shouldn"t be islands . Argued that suicide was: strongly influenced by social forces, varied in its rate with degree of: Social solidarity degree to which group members share beliefs and values and the intensity and frequency of their interaction. Excessive individuation : detached from community, feeling of not belonging, weak social support networks, not socially integrated, becomes distant, durkheim occurs usually in modern society don"t share a set of values and morals)