SOSC 1040 Chapter Notes -Consumerism, Consumer Capitalism, Social Fact

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

Sociology and the birth of modern society: our society influences our tastes, desires, our personal opinions and even sets out the choices that shape the course of our lives. Social critique aims to shed light on areas where progress needs to be made which is a positive thing to do. They are supposed to make life more organized and efficient. But this sometimes work in the opposite way, depending who are the people in control and how they are running those groups: social reality is maintained through group agreement. People are invested in keeping many social rules just as they are. : is an economic and political system in which a country"s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Our society is given meaning and shape by various cultural influences but is dominated by the culture of consumerism. : we can identify how individual behaviours and the social: macrosocial level of reality.