Week 3 Readings

Sociology

Sociology

________ must combine broad generalizations and data → put science into this.

Peace

________- seeking: no wars between democracies.

Biopolitics

________: concerned with the collective (society, race, nation, population)

Knowledge

________ is crucial to the formation of the real material world.

Self-determination

________: protecting of own fundamental interests.

Opposition

________: deviance from the general norms of society.

Practices of knowledge

Our being (as conscious and active creatures) is composed through regimes, relations, and ________.

Social norms

________ and laws: rules that guide the behaviour and thinking of the members of society.

Modernization

________: cause greater individuation and greater deviance.

Democracy

________ in America: citizens equality, suffrage, born free, free press + freedom of speech.

Racial inequality

________: the result of social, economic, historical, and political forces.

Modern episteme

________: the organizing structure of knowledge of modern Western Europe.

Social facts

________: examples are social norms and laws.

Division of labour

________: furnishes the basis for cementing and solidifying the character of society= integrative function.

Social facts

examples are social norms and laws

Modernization

cause greater individuation and greater deviance

Social norms and laws

rules that guide the behaviour and thinking of the members of society

Institutions

education, religion, economy

Culture, symbols and rituals

unite members of society

Division of labour

furnishes the basis for cementing and solidifying the character of society = integrative function

Opposition

deviance from the general norms of society

State

police force

Democracy in America

citizens equality, suffrage, born free, free press + freedom of speech

Tyranny of the majority

only the greatest number could gain an advantage

Racial inequality

the result of social, economic, historical, and political forces

Double-consciousness

when ones social identities and social roles are at odds with one another

Genealogy

anti-science