SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnography, Central Tendency, Negative Relationship
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Theory is a set of proposiions that have logic to them. They have something to say about empirical reality. The explanaion why things happen the way that things happen. Method and theory go together, but theory and method get arranged in a diferent order/direcion. Classical social theorists develop ideas describing how society works. Theory can be built at three levels of society: Levels of theory: macro social theory/ social scale. Highest level that tends to focus on structure. Explaining social life at highest level of abstracion. Focus on enire populaion: micro social theory. Ex. face to face interacions between individuals, way person makes meaning out of acions they take: miso level. Producive place for people to build middle ground theory. Agency idea that individuals do have freedom in the most oppressed situaions, even at a ime of distress, humans have an ability to ind the freedom they have and do something. Central tendency in sociology, tension on agency vs. structure.
