SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - The Sociological Imagination
2 Mar 2013
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Monday and friday 1:15-2:15, 617 mckn office hours. Theorectical concepts have a role in shaping the direction of research. If theory is to be understood, we have to understand it"s nature: development, etc. We"ll examine the successes and failures of theories. The study of society on a high level of abstraction = sociology. Human beings in interdependence with one another = sociology. Interested in how we develop our culture and destroy culture = sociology. Patterns of behaviour, not individual behaviour = sociology. Philosophy = developed in ancient greece 18th century (1700s) late 1700s, French revolution age of enlightenment, birth of sociology. Sociologists study what is state of gender, etc. Look at the human past as a sequence of unique events and processes. The value of theory: contemporary relevance of old theories theories are explanations models: the world in which people lived was perfect" determined by fate, views had undergone fundamental changes. New types and forms of economic behaviour.
