SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Labour Power, Charismatic Authority, Talcott Parsons

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Alison Dunwoody

Document Summary

The biggest complaints of sociology, is that we have too many theories and that they con. They are not scientific theories, they are conceptual frameworks, they help us order ou individuals and society"s. They can be very grand, and they can talk about universal features, of all societies w specific (race, gender religion) Smaller theories tend to be more manageable, the grand theories collapse in many sociologists advocate for them. People outside the discipline are too open to interpretation, sociologist is reasonable complex, in the kinds of theories we devise. Sociology does cohere, they have little to do with one another, they don"t have a commo another in which they can be universal with another (different jargon) One of the deeper problems, most sociologists departments are split into introductory c sociology courses, very little middle ground, there is no bridging that gap (cause quiets a.