SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Teen Mom

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

In observing the growing centrality of media to new and varied dimensions of contemporary life we have seen a renewed focus on research develop. For example, we are currently examining where we are in regards to what we call reality or realities. As a result: we are amidst new developments and directions in research methodology. Some sociologists, in particular those couched in traditional research methods stress that research needs to be rigorous and disciplined rather than impressionistic and haphazard and this suggests to us a type of objectivity or neutrality. Developed in 19th century as practitioners of the emerging social sciences worked to disconnect themselves from speculation and community. This was in efforts (for social scientists) to establish themselves as scientists on par with those in the natural sciences. *as a result of these realities objectivity is being pushed further and further away* Positivist"s favour recording facts in terms of quantity-this is to bolster objectivity and precision.