SOCI 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Fact, Sui Generis, Sociology Of Culture
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Friday sept. 11, 2015: what is theory. Used to explain, test, and produce concepts. Accounts of the world and shape how we engage in this world. Sets of proposiions and generalizaions that interpret and explain reality. Working explanaions statements about the world. Theory exists in empirical world make accounts of what we see and test through own logic or observaion. Lenses shape how we see the world, what quesions we ask, tools we use to answer quesions. Embedded in larger conversaions and projects of knowledge construcion. Muliple understandings of what sociological theory entails. How much are we actors and how much are we free moving. Metaphysical environment - general presupposiions (assumpions) vs observaions. One of the founders of sociology (background wont be tested) Sought to uncover knowledge that could help put france in good path. Acion guided by collecive or cultural constraints. Moral purpose of sociology, prescripions for society. How our thought and acion is guided by codes.
