KINE 3P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Structural Functionalism, Social Fact
5 Jul 2016
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87 deceased nfl players tested for brain disease. Do sports like this need to change: many concussions causing these injuries. Wynne under fire over bonuses to pan am executives. People got bonus if they didn"t quit before the games. Think of sociological theory as stories" about the nature of the social world and peoples role in it. Athletes don"t get a lot of say in sports. Try not to think of theories being proved but rather supported. Support them like he did with his leave it to the experts: the politics of. Always a partial picture (causes its always changing) First prof of sociology in the first department of sociology in france. Viewed sociology as the science of institutions. Central text: suicide: a study in sociology (1897) Challenged the traditional and dominant ways of viewing suicide, ex. The religious view that suicide is a sin" and (emerging) psychological view that suicide is an individual decision/problem.
