SOAN 2111- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2111
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Ii the value of theory: contemporary relevance of old theories. Iii nature and types of sociological theory: positivism, interpretive, critical. Iv expansion on theoretical frameworks: key concepts and terminology. Art inhabits the same past as business, religion or politics. Theoretical concepts have a role in: shaping the direction of research, consider the theories you want to use, directing observation (cid:894)what (cid:455)ou"re e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:895, guiding description. Sociology: logy- study a high level, socio- points to society, comte (1839): developed the phrase sociology, study of what is. Social philosophy: much older than sociology, we were interested in what society ought to be. History: recurring patterns of events, variables, themes, recurring patterns observable in human independence, historically, sociological classical theory written between the time of the great french revolution 1789-1799 and ww1 (1919) All living in society undergoing wide ranging social changes. Each concerned with the character and directions of modern society e. g. division of labor, bureaucracy.