SOCY 325 Lecture Notes - Social Fact, Symbolic Interactionism, Instrumental And Value-Rational Action

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 325
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Finding commonalities through observation, find a common law. How we come to know the natural world, this is how we control and manipulate the natural would. We live in a social world, so now we have to dare to know this world. Objective of sociology, objective, value free, empircal based nowledge that we can use to create a world with peace knowledge and freedom. Durkheim says we need to create a science of society. They are external but we internalize them through socialization. Studying protestantism and how it led to suicide Social fact of religion integrates people into relationships with others. Objectively looking at social facts of individuals to see who would be likely to commit suicide. You could predict human behaviour through empiricism, objectivity, and observation. Gather information about the world, and generate laws that explain phenomenon. Weber- believes not in social facts, but in how people understand the world, frames of mind.