Socialisation - Introduction to Sociology - Lecture Notes, Study notes of Introduction to Sociology

Download Socialisation - Introduction to Sociology - Lecture Notes and more Study notes Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture: The Individual and Society Overheads • People are coerced and controlled by society via the dominating effect of the social structure and experience society as constraint. • People internalise social values and are moulded and shaped into social beings through the process of socialisation. • People are decision-makers and through their agency and interaction negotiate around and through society’s constraints and controls. This simple example of a proposal of marriage highlights the recurrent themes of sociology that we will address in the course: • Culture • Socialisation • Social interaction • The social self • Social roles (like gender) • Social Institutions docsity.com