SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Altruistic Suicide, Mass Suicide

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

Document Summary

Sociology: the systematic study of human behaviour in social context: we as humans shape society, and in turn are shaped by society. Sociological imagination - personal troubles of the individual fall within public issues. Social structures stable patterns of social relations: micro: family, friends, meso: school, community, macro: class relations global: entire world. Personal troubles individual problems homelessness job loss poverty/hunger: mental wellness. With sociological imagination, personal troubles become public issues. Example: job loss context of unemployment, demographics of unemployment relationship between education and jobs/job loss global manufacturing pressures, union presence.