SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scrotum, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Class Conflict
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It will help you understand your everyday life. A theory is a set of ideas backed by evidence to explain something. Explanation of social phenomenon(darwin"s noticed that the characteristic of a. It"s an explanation(what) and description(how, why) species changed in relation to their natural environment and will have higher chances of surviving, he went on to explain why and how it happened) Formal theory: systematic, coherent explanation based on rigorous social observation(research) Every phenomenon needs explaining(we can"t look at something and get a really good sense of something) Systematic searching for the actual causes of phenomenon. Huge body of sociological theory, dating from 19th century. Different schools of thought (marxism, feminism, functionalism) Each has ia set of common premises. Learn the key premises of each school. To understand the premises of each of these schools, and then take any issue and apply. Institutions to help people socialize and keep society functional. Social order is the foundation of functionalist theory.
