SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georg Simmel, Alexis De Tocqueville, Social Network
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Grad school workshop monday, nov 6th @ wilson hall 1017 11am to noon. Empirical (descriptive) vs. normative (evaluative: empirical claim. Using normative evidence for sure, but using empirical: the way to arbitrate claims are different evidence for an opinion like that is a lot harder. Interaction: weaker person has certain maneuver and acts back on stronger person, reciprocal, critical question: does he overplay the interaction, tocqueville. Critique (cid:498)simmel"s sociology of power: the architecture of politics(cid:499) by ev. French politics: new forms of solidarity in french plant, division of self, within society"s horizontal relations. 1954-1962 war: alliance b/t, believers in islam, party reject french because they"re christian, secularist, knowledgeable, far from religion. It is an individual act but cannot be studied without comparisons, its relational: social realism, feeling for social structure is lacking in simmel reading, focuses on face to face. Inequality b/t societies, men and women, race interaction.
