SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociological Theory, Solidarity, George Herbert Mead

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

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Lecture 3 theory i (part 1 of 2 lectures) Note: textbook notes will come in the next note set (lecture 4) Sociological theory is perspectives, no single theory is correct or incorrect. Theory is all about different lenses to analyze a sociological situation. This seemed important: growth of science a point where religion was a dominant component of everyone"s lives. Science become an increasingly dominant way to understand the world replacing religion. Growth in science as an objective fact based way of understanding the world. Prestige was started to be placed on science. Sociology modeled after hard science (such as biology or chemistry). Emile durkheim, who was heavily associated with the rise of sociology. Emile"s theor(cid:455) - positivism was the objective value free research meaning unbiased study of people in social contexts. Industrial revolution and capitalism 18th and 19th century. Shift from agriculture to industry, farms to factories.