SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Methodology, The Hockey Sweater, Social Fact

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Establishing sociology as a positive science (following comte) Three principle methodological rules stemming from social facts as. The rules of sociological method designed to extend the scope of scientific. Study cause and effect in social action to make predictions. A manifesto on behalf of the cause of a sociology that is objective, specific. Before beginning the search for the method appropriate to the study of and methodical". (lukes) social facts, it is important to know which facts are termed social" . Sociology deals with shared ideas and patterns of conscious action as well as with social institutions and structures. Social structures and processes analogous to biological structures and their functions but distinct. Making the distinction establishes society, not the individual, as the focus of sociology its unique realm of study of identifiable, institutionalized patterns of action into which individuals are born. Sociology"s domain the study of a pre-existing, unique entity, comprised.