SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Altruistic Suicide, Solidarity
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The systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. Seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Asking questions about things that looks familiar even in a day-to-day life ex: (cid:373)ale"s ha(cid:374)ds (cid:271)roader tha(cid:374) fe(cid:373)ales". Identify the social context in which we live in and how these contexts shape our lives. A way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Interconnecting between the life of an individual and the history of society. Point of sociology is to get to know the point of the real sociological imagination. Micro pattern of a social interactions in a small circle (like friends and families) Macro large scale interactions (like a class of an institution of a country) Mesostructures patterns of social relations in organizations that involve people who are often not intimately acquainted and who often do not interact face-to-face ex.
