SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Social Inequality, Rationality, Ideal Type

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna

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> sociology is the systematic study of human society. > society shapes our lives, and our most private choices (durkheim & suicide) > sociological imagination= mills (1959(cid:895) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed that usi(cid:374)g (cid:862)so(cid:272)iologi(cid:272)al i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) helped people understand the connection between wider social issues and individual problems. > sociology can have an important role in our own personal growth: Positivism = a way of understanding based on science. John porter (inequality and ethnic relations in the vertical mosaic) Society as a complex system whose parts work together for solidarity and stability. Social structure is any relatively stable pattern of social behavior. Social function refers to the consequences for the operation of society as a whole. Importance of women to the develop. of sociology (martineau & addams) Importance of people of colour to the development of sociology (bernett & bois) Society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and social change.