Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antipositivism, Spurious Relationship, Scientific Control
19 Jan 2017
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Existing data or official stats are used to determine the characteristics and actions of people. Sociological research involves not just procedures for gathering info but controversies about whether that research should strive to be objective or offer a bold perspective on change. To understand the kind of insights sociology offers, we need to realize that there are various kinds of (cid:858)t(cid:396)uth(cid:859) You can look at anything through the sociological lens. Curious pattern of behaviour leads to sociological research (issues of inequality, why certain neighbourhoods have lower class, etc. ) Kinds of truths: k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:271)elief(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)faith(cid:863): There is no truth that applies to everything. Its possible to have both religious truth and scientific truth. Religion becomes a truth to whoever believes it: pronouncement of some recognized expert: Each discipline has its own experts: simple agreement among ordinary people: Truths can change over time (eg. health advice) People agree that people should be good therefore this become a truth: science:
