SOC 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Forces, Cultural Capital, George Herbert Mead
7 Dec 2012
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Sociology: the study of society- socius ( being with others) ology ( the study of) term was coined by. Auguste comte ( born at the end of the french revolution) Started writing about the enlightenment and during the enlightenment science was born. Before the enlightenment most people believed just what the clergy told them. Wasn"t this idea that people can just be critical of things. Most important thing was the idea of human inquiry the idea of why don"t people solve things themselves. He thought why don"t we use scientific methods to solve social problems. Sociology is also called positivism: society could be understood as a set of empirical facts that you could study using scientific methods. The web of meanings, expectations and conduct resulting from such mutual orientation is the stuff of sociological analysis ( berger) To understand the social you have to abstract it from everyday life. Thinking sociologically means being critical of common sense ideas.
