Week 1: The Discipline

Question 1

What is Sociology?

Answer 1

Is the systematic study of society, systematic study of society
- Relationship between individuals and society

Question 1

The Sociological Perspective

Answer 1

Understanding human behaviour by placing it within its broader social context
- Gender factors
- Social inequality factors
- Something familiar, and made strange

Question 2

Individualistic society

Answer 2

A society that values personalism and individual accomplishments, which often take precedence over group goals. These societies tend to emphasize ways in which individuals differ from each other.

Question 3

Society

Answer 3

Understanding how society operates; natural rules, objectives truths
- Auguste Comte coined sociology

Question 4

3 stages of historical development

Answer 4

1. Theological Stage
2. Metaphysical Stage
3. Scientific Stage
   … Positivism

Question 5

Theological

Answer 5

Relating to the study of theory

Question 6

Metaphysical

Answer 6

• Society was viewed as a natural phenomenon and not a supernatural phenomenon
• Through invasion the printing press

Question 7

Scientific

Answer 7

Make society an object and use systematic and scientific ideas to study it

Question 8

Positivism

Answer 8

Way of understanding positivism in society, ways of covering universal laws in society

Question 9

Sociological Imagination

Answer 9

• Is the “quality of mind” that will help individuals gain an understanding of what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves
• Help ‘us’ to locate ourselves in the broader milieu and make sense of our experience

Question 10

Mirco: Individual and interpersonal (biographies)

Answer 10

Questions you need to talk about in surveys or lectures

Question 11

Meso: Technical and organizational (workplace)

Answer 11

Questions you need to talk about in enrollment numbers

Question 12

Macro: System level (Canadian, province)

Answer 12

Political questions you talk about in media, large stats data