SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability
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To examine the central issues these theorists raise and to analyze the particular theoretical stance they take as they explore these concerns. Whether we are consciously aware of them or not, our everyday life is filled with theories as we seek to understand the world around us. The importance of formal sociological theorizing is that it makes assumptions and categories explicit; hence open to examination, scrutiny, and reformulation. In this book, we seek to demonstrate the continuing relevance of classical sociological theory. By classical sociological theory, we mean the era during which sociology first emerged as a discipline and was then institutionalized in universities- the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Yet, the purpose of this book is to provide students not only with core classical sociological readings but also a framework for comprehending them. Why it is important for students to read the original works of the core figures in sociological theory.
