SOC 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Fact, Organism
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Social theory: paradigms or frameworks, uses conceptual abstractions to describe behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, relationships, processes and more, attempt to explain relationships between multiple concepts. Paradigms: a typical example or pattern of something; a model. 1) t ool for us to understand the research result/what we are looking for: a vital dimension of sociology. It explains the how and why - the processes or mechanisms underlying social phenomena: to guide research, and research is used to build theory. 2. 2 social fact and society as machine and society as organism. Social fact--> emile durkheim : transcend our culturally ingrained ways of looking at the world. Established the formal discipline of sociology in the academy. Social fact: concept to guide scientific inquiry that could be objective and. Pioneers use of statistical analysis to investigate social phenomena. Use of objective view of the world and get pass the cultural bias. Society as machine and society as organism --> becker.
