Intro to Sociology SO100 Professor Francisco Vivoni Notes from Week 1 Week 1 Part 1 Definition of sociology Social causes Social forces Systematic study of human behavior in social contexts from priests to prostitutes Pierre Bourdieu s definition sociology as a martial art self defense Defend yourself without the right of using unfair attacks Ex Emile Durkheim late 1800s Suicide Individual flaw social issue Social causes theory of social solidarity loose ties not involved in social religious institutions no ties w family friends Sociological imagination the ability to see the connection between personal problems and social structures C Wright Mills 1916 1962 Social causes social forces social structures stable patterns of social relations Freedom Constraint Agency Our Structures Patriarchy Lives Free Will Determinism Parking is a personal problem globalization right of way Week 1 Part 2 Seeing and thinking sociologically what is sociology Constraint A Quality Of Mind sociology for what Agency structure Determinism sociology for who Race Class Gender The Sociological Imagination lack of broader questions thinking in the now Course of history Learn from mistakes childhood hometown movements History ideology change historical events biography history geology circumstances new information overwhelming Personal thoughts private matter Social issues public matter Sociological information understanding of self in history social structure individual grasping application Ex Industry military Social Structures military industrial complex 4 Schools of Thought Conflict Theory Structural Functionalism Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Class struggle Battlefield Mechanical Clock Macrorelations Macrorelations Symbolic interactionism Feminism Theory Max Weber way buhr EZ bake oven facebook macrorelations microrelations face to face interaction microrelations
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