SOC 232 Lecture Notes - Lifeworld, Pseudoscience, Social Theory
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Social theory: a system of interconnected ideas that condense and organizes the knowledge about the social world and explains how it works. Data: numerical (qualitative) and nonnumerical (quantitative) information and evidence that have been carefully gathered accoring to rules or established pocedures. Empirical: what we can observe and experience directly through thuman sense (touch, sight , hearing, smell, taste) or indirectly using techniquest that extend the senses. Pseudoscience: ideas or information clothed in the jarogon outward apperance of science to win acceptance but what was not created with the systematic. Inductive: tends to generate theory last (after data collection). India, an experimental township growing in india, used to realize human unity in an interactive way. Observed and gathered data first, a search for patterns in the data itself. Looked for themes, what was important to the residence. By review of a theory and its research that one recognizes a gap in the knowledge. Theory of communcative action jurgen habermas.
