SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Multinational Corporation, Sociological Theory, Empiricism
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Interpreting social conditions: gives us a way to interpret social conditions and make sense of the social world all around us, example: understand the role of a transnational corporation, such as nike through karl marx"s ideas about capitalism. We can also interpret the role of a transnational corporation with max: comparing different perspectives. Weber"s ideas about bureaucracy: sociology is made up of many different theories that give us many different perspectives on social conditions, we can compare the theories, when we compare theoretical perspectives, we can do two things: Consider which perspectives are most useful for understanding social conditions: [referring to above example] we can compare the two perspectives of max. Weber and karl marx to understand the role of transnational corporation (such as. It could not have emerged any earlier because sociology grew out of a number of different developments (intellectual and historical: these developments paved the way for sociology and sociological theory to emerge.