SOC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marital Rape, Empirical Relationship, Practical Action
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Week1: jan 15th: empirical observations, theoretical concepts refers to practical action (question of what to do, what can i do, etc (cid:498)bundling(cid:499) Abstraction that groups together a collection of actual or potential experiences and identifies them as different instances of the same thing includes several other concept. Acquire the concept of self through other concept of selves (cid:498)construction(cid:499) building a concept out of many other concept (cid:523)(cid:498)bundling(cid:499)(cid:524: ex. Infants realize parent as a self when they discover other selves. Acquire concepts through life experiences: social experiences, interaction with others, non-verbal, etc. Example: marital rape the concept changes how we are able to categorize the type of abuse. Definition of a concept usually invoke the definition of other concepts. Conception questions differ from empirical questions even though they may look similar: ex. Theoretical question: do the empirical events fit the definition of our concept how have we defined the concept: ex. Marital rape: changes how people interpret, the meaning of rape.
