SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Feminism, Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

Document Summary

Socy 210 textbook chapter 2: paradigms, theory, and research. Researching findings based only on the observation of patters are insufficient. Unless we can offer logical explanations for such patterns, the regularities we"ve observed may be mere flukes, chance occurrence: e. g. If you flip coins long enough, you"ll get 10 heads in a row. Not all theories seek to provide logical explanations: Therefore, not all research do seek to explain they want to know why. Paradigm: a model or framework for observation and understanding, which shapes both what we see and how we understand it. The conflict paradigm causes us to see social behaviour one way; the interactions paradigm causes us to see it differently. Types of paradigms: macro-theory: deals with large, aggregate entitles of society or even whole, micro-theory: deals with issues of social life at the level of individuals and societies. small groups, early positivism: His positive philosophy postulated three stage of history .