SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Juvenile Delinquency, Feminist Theory, Symbolic Interactionism
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A model or framework for observation and understanding which shapes both what we see and how we understand it. Example: picture where from one view it looks like an old women, from another view it looks like a young women. Major social science paradigms: early positivism (comte) Driven by the idea that society can be explained in a positive way scientifically using scientific methods. Back then everything was explained by religious paradigms -> b/c god wanted it this way. Comte felt that society could be observed and explained logically and rationally, and that sociology could be as scientific as biology or physics: conflict paradigm (marxist) Marx suggested that social behavior could best be seen as the process of conflict: the attempt to dominate others and to avoid being dominated. Conflict theory focuses on the negative, conflicted, and ever-changing nature of society. Conflict theory can be applied at the macro and micro level.
