Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atomism, Status Quo, Nominalism
3 Apr 2016
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We have been conditioned to not see the institutions Understand the stimuli that determine almost everything that you do: the ceeps= a stimulus, media tells you to consume beer. We don"t know how to define what influences us. It is a set of universal problems that any social theorist has to be thinking about implicitly or explicitly. Theory method enlightenment romantic conservative reaction. Three general issues that pervade social theory: epistemology, the study of how we know things, how we think about things, nominalism: sensitive to unique biographies, accepts different points of views. Realism: sensitive to the general/average biographies, compatible with science. In the social world, truth may not be something we discover, it may be something we construct: radical vs. conservative (value bias, radical: facts never speak for themselves; facts are always attached to values. Someone who opposes the status quo, they oppose what is .
