CAS SO 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Quantitative Research, Symbolic Interactionism, Macrosociology
27 Sep 2017
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Making the familiar strange is a key principle. Positivism arose at a time of declining religious authority. Social construction exists because people believe that it exists. Believed that conflicts between classes drove societal changes. Criticized marx for being too focused on economy. he included culture, economics, Functionalism was derived from durkheim and states that the best way to analyze society is by identifying the roles that different aspects of phenomena play. society is like a living organism. Explores how power relationship are defined, shaped, and reproduced on the basis of gender differences. People react in response to the meanings of signs and symbols. Signs are often self constituting and we believe in them ourselves instead of being forced into believing. Laid the groundwork for interactionism. he believed that our everyday. History tries to understand the peculiarity of past events so we can better understand the world today. sociology does not generally deal with uniqueness and rather the the commonalities.
