SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dalton Conley, Social Forces, False Consciousness
24 Sep 2017
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To be a sociologist is to wonder about what is. Sociologist question what most others take for granted about society - dalton. The rst wisdom of sociology is this: things are not what they seem - peter. What does it mean to live in a society with others? : personal stories are not merely personal. They are structured: sociologies: the logics of social things. Sociological theory: theory: an attempt to explain events, forces, materials, ideas, or behaviour in a comprehensive manner. Predictive, explanatory, understanding : can have the power to explain things, predict things. Will help us see relationships, between things that aren"t related at all. Practical sociologist: everybody else; we grew up in an environment, questioning why things are the way they are. And theres a special class called professional sociologist. Practical sociology is the understanding that arises from the. Study of suicide: most viewed as an individual action.
