SOAN 3070 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Anna Borisenkova

Document Summary

Imprecise subject matter vs imprecise study of subjects. For this reason alone, qualitative researchers need to be more careful and more clear in their writing than all other scientists. The chicago school of sociology: william fielding ogburn (1886-1959) Did(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that the future of so(cid:272)iology did (cid:374)ot lay i(cid:374) (cid:271)ooks that did not use quantitative methods. Argued sociology needed to become a real science. He wanted sociology to be a field that look more like the natural sciences in both its presentation and research orientation: robert ezra park (1864-1944) Wanted to relate sociology to the actual lives of people. Told students needed to get the seat of their pants dirty to get real research. A real sociologist should be always in contact with their object of study. Most important thing for a social scientist was to go around all the neighbourhoods and find out what was going on, to meet real people, conduct first hand research.