SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hyperglycemia, Social Fact, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: samuel

Document Summary

Routine, how do we explain individual and group motivations. Social order is a product of social interaction. Individual or group operates in some external parameter. Ex. alcohol drinking - not drinking alcohol due to religion is non-rational, not drinking due to high blood sugar is rational. Conservatives believed that society is not the product of individuals, rather an entity in itself (page 36-37) Social world is a dynamic system of interrelated and interdependent. Functionalists look at society as made up as different institutions. Society works as a machine, when one part of the machine fails, the whole thing fails. Key theorists in this school: herbert spencer (1820-1903), emile durkheim (1858-1917), Talcott parsons (1902-1979) robert merton (1910 - 2003) Emile durkheim - founder of modern sociology: social fact (general social features that exist on their own and are independent of individual manifestations, social solidarity (groups of people sticking together, positivism (rational, scientific, measured thinking)