Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Licht, Airai, Ideal Type
24 Oct 2014
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Chapter 1 - the what, how and why of sociology. A good social analyst asks these 3 types of questions (pp. 15):1. Troubles (pp. 17): values cherished by the individual is threatened - love, companionship, equality and dignityissues (pp. 17): crisis in institutional arrangement - high divorce rateexamples of this are unemployment, war, life in big cities. You have to step out of society and its commonly held beliefs and ideas in order to observe without a biased opinion. Systematic in its observation. -> sociology and common sense (not the same thing)!! !knowledge that relies on common sense is not always reliable. sociologists must analyze and test each piece of information they use, which might include common sense or commonly held beliefs - the taken for granted. -> Sociology and the natural sciencesscience: body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation. A core diagram: we are formed by our social context but we also transcend that context .
