SA 358 Lecture 5: SA 358 WEEK 5

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 358
• Professor: Teeple Gary

Document Summary

The broadest and inclusive social science lacking a unified paradigm or object of research. (26) sociologist mindset sets them apart from other social scientists. Their outlook is that human behaviour is determined by societal practices and societal organisation. Deals with the phenomenon of professionalization and the societal division of labour. Weakened by accelerating social and technological change. Every discipline can be analyzed by looking at its historical development. Historical conditions led to the foundation of an academic discipline and how it changed over time. Points of discontinuity or departure from obsolete practices and ways of thinking. Can lead to creation of a new one. Generally look for the wider societal content and the overall conditions that influenced the development of a specific discipline. The academic disciplines was an invention of the late. Theology, laws, and medicine was an early disciplining of knowledge to responds to the external demands in the context of the industrialization and advance of technology.