PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Verstehen, Participant Observation, Double Standard

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Soci 1001 sociology and canadian society chapter summaries. Berger further encouraged the ability to perceive the strange in the familiar to question the assumptions behind rational everyday phenomena: sociology emerged from the need to understand the striking social changes that occurred in. Europe in the form of three revolutions the scientific, industrial and political revolutions: a positivist approach views science as the rightful foundation of all understanding. Integration the system needs to maintain solidarity in all units while allowing the aspirations of subgroups. Chapter 3: sociology theory and research questions are inextricably linked, the theoretical perspective a researcher uses will influence the questions they ask, sociological research entails using either a quantitative (numerical) or qualitative (non- numerical, richly detailed) approach. Researchers employ either deductive reasoning (moving from theory to data) or inductive reasoning (moving from data to theory: the overall research process begins with an area of interest. A literature search helps with the development of a research question.