SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Talcott Parsons, False Consciousness, The Sociological Imagination
11 Apr 2016
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Examples: global community, society, naional organizaions, insituion and ethnic sub cultures, me, friends, people i know. Sociology: the systemaic study of human groups and their interacions. The sociological perspecive: the unique way in which sociologists see our world and can dissect the dynamic relaionships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. A theory is a set of interrelated proposiions constructed and iing together logically, which claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. Explanaions can be described as the stories we tell each other in atempts to produce some order in our lives. Theories outline paths that lead to paricular outcomes. They allow is to feel that we know why something happened and whether or not under what condiions, it is likely to occur again. Scope: the range of phenomena that a theory can explain.
