sociology short notes and facts : part 1
Emile Durkheim Pioneer in the field of sociology Positivist and used deductive approach in study Influenced by august comte Society suigeneris Believed in rational and scientific lens Sociology is different from other subjects because its methodology Two types of society (a) Normal (b) Pathological social facts : charcteristics social chacteristics and determinants which are not biological or physiological external to individual endure the rest of time goes for generations coercive in nature example : suicide , marriage, wearing formals to job interviews,morality , crime morality system of rules, serving the common good deviance : it is essential and functional later developed merton's strain theory elements of religious life : totemic society of Australian tribe. we are not worshiping God but society itself.