SOC 402 Lecture 2: Week 2 Lecture 2

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 402
• Professor: Heather Rollwagen

Document Summary

Using sociology to think about urban social problems. How do we use sociology to think about urban social problems: theoretical perspectives, sociological analysis of public space, public space observation. Why theory? theory: set of ideas how to make sense of something: situate our research in broader literature, orient ourselves to a topic. What key ideas should i pick up on to offer an explanation: theory provides conceptual tools to think about a topic or research question. Middle range theories speak to a specific social phenomenon: research methods are linked to theory. Rooted in grand ideas as to what constitutes knowledge. Ontological: what is possible to know and how can we know it. Human ecology: chi(cid:272)ago s(cid:272)hool earl(cid:455) (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s (cid:894)a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ities gro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g rapidl(cid:455), large amounts of immigration into the city, western european sociology was growing and established itself as a discipline)