SOCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Calvinism, Labour Power, Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education
5 Jun 2015
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Soci 1110-01- introduction to sociology- lecture #2_part 1- chapter 2: thinking. Theories: sets of interrelated ideas that have a wide range of approach deal with centrally important issues have stood the test of time. Make sense of the innumerable social phenomena. Without such theories, we would have little more than bits (isolated) and knowledge and the many highly detailed findings of sociological theory. Sociological theory is systematic through data gathering data through scientific methods and techniques theories validated by other sociologists. Ordinary theorizing casual and intuitive data on direct observation theories not validated. Sociological theories have commodities: broad and general shared consensus about scientific research share sociological imagination. Sociology as a discipline: roots to early 19th century european urban contexts related to the impact of the industrial revolution. August comte (1798 - 1857) coined the term sociology" important works: course on positive philosophy -> humanity passes through 3 successive stages the theological the meta physical the positive.
