SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Felidae, Verstehen, General Idea

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

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Concrete experience: obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, or hearing. Abstract experience: the imaginary world of the mind. Concepts: abstract terms used to organize concrete experiences. All have the same abstract concept which comes to our mind to identify the object as a pen. Propositions: are ideas that result from finding the relationship between concepts. More educated people tend to earn more income . Sociological ideas: sociologists connect their abstract concepts and propositions to concrete percepts and patters. Insiders: have intimate sensitives and understandings that are inaccessible to outsiders. Outsiders: have the ability to not only understand the insider"s perspectives, but has the ability to understand non-members of the insiders. Positivists: assume that social realities are objective and are best studied through quantitative research methods. The task of sociological methods is to develop tools to observe and measure objective social reality in a quantitative manner (surveys and statistics)