SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter LEC 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Social Theory, Nomothetic
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Introduction to sociology in commit sociology vol 1 p17-20. It focuses on face-to-face communication or interaction in micro level social settings. Human inquiry and science in commit sociology vol 1 p38-64. Agreement reality: what we know as part and parcel of the culture we share with those around us. Experiential reality: what we know from personal experience and discovery. Patterns of cause and effect are probabilistic in nature. Each of us inherits a culture made up, in part, of firmly accepted knowledge about the workings of the world. Tradition offers some clear advantages to human inquiry. At the same time, tradition may hinder human inquiry. Often the acceptance of these new acquisitions will depend on the status of the discoverer. Authority can both assist and hinder human inquiry. Solutions: scientist commit themselves in advance to a sufficiently large and representative sample of observations. Solution: using systems of logic consciously and explicitly. Assumed they saw things as they really were.
