SY101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Social Class, Structural Functionalism
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Sociology is the study of the diverse contexts in which individuals" lives unfold and the social world is created: the social world humans create have two key components: social interaction and social structure. Social interaction is how individuals act around each other, including how they modify their behaviour based on who they are around. Social interaction is guided by a set of norms: norms are basic rules of society to help us know what is appropriate. Sociologists use the concept of social structure to describe the many ways in which the rules and norms of everyday life become patterns that shape and govern social interaction: we can identify two critical components of social structure. University of bordeaux in 1895, and the first major sociology journal in 1898. In germany, a group of early sociologists - including max weber - created an influential journal called sozialwissenchaft and sozialpolitik, establishing an identity for sociology as a discipline in that country.
