SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Collective Effervescence, Wield, Social Forces
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Canadian higher education system greatly expanded in the immediate post second world war era. The most abstract theories are called macro theories. These three different levels of explanation macro, middle range, and micro allow sociologist to examine various facets of the social world. Durkheim and socialization: the micro foundations of social interaction and the cultural shift to individualism. At the micro level, durkheim asked: with the transition from traditional to modern societies, what provides for the social regularity of modern life: durkheim saw this everywhere. More people were geographically mobile, moving across country sides, region, even national borders: durkheim argued against those two postulated individual rationality, or a social contract, as a basis of society. For any two parties to agree to a contract, he reason, they had to trust one another. Trust was fundamental: second, trust comes from individuals interacting. You"re very identity your sense of self comes from others. Your own name is given to you by others.
