SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Economics Association, Auguste Comte, Social Inequality
22 Feb 2016
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Seeing the general in the particular (peter berger) you can understand the general from viewing the particular (instead of researching society as a whole, research a few individuals instead) Sociologists identify general social patterns in the behaviour of particular individuals. Giving up the idea that human behaviour is simply a matter of. Understanding that society shapes our lives what people decide to do. The power of society to shape even our most private choices. People at the margins of social life are aware of social patterns that others rarely think about. Periods of change or crisis encourage us to use the sociological perspective. Global perspective: where we live shapes the lives we lead, societies throughout the world are increasingly interconnected, many problems that we face in canada are more serious elsewhere, thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves. Sociology has played an important role in the development of. Sociology can have an important role in our own personal growth:
