SPMA 2P07 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Forces

• School: Brock University
• Department: Sport Management
• Course: SPMA 2P07
• Professor: Rachel Corbett

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Social theory: a system of interconnected abstractions or ideas that condenses and organizes knowledge about the social world, theories explain how things work. Parts of a theory: concepts: ideas that are carefully defined (ex. A highly identified team fan is someone who : assumptions: necessary starting points that have not been tested (ex. If we assume people have internet access : relationships: how concepts are related to one another (ex. Highly identified fans are more likely to utilize new media to follow the team ) Explanation: a theory"s primary purpose is to explain. !1: the most common type of explanation is the causal explanation - used when the. Monday, september 19, 2016 relationship is one of cause and effect: to establish causality, you need 3 things: Positivist social science: positivism is the approach of the natural sciences, researchers search for universal law-like casual relationships that govern human behaviour.