SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Harriet Martineau, Lynn Mcdonald, Georg Simmel
2 Mar 2013
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Durkheim socially involved (division of labour concept also encouraged scientists to become socially involved) The women founders of the social sciences lynn mcdonald. Did not have the institutions men have had to support each other"s work. No schools to promote their work few biographies their work wasn"t really publicly accepted they were seen has secondhand citizens. The nature and types of sociological thought: positivism, Positivism (based on observations and facts observable facts) is nomothetic it seeks generalizable, universally applicable laws logic of explanation ability to predict environments. Comte believe that social scientists must group the law that determine human behaviour. Interpretive theory study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their social worlds symbols are learned (we learn our gender stereotypes, etc. ) relies on qualitative data. Understand limitations of positivist method want to predict control want to recognize significance of historical and cultural context in understanding human behaviour.
