SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism, Feminist Theory
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**(a lot of the test questions come from this lecture) People tend to get married because of love, financial gain (lower taxes when married), cultural norms (certain age where a man or woman should get married), premarital pregnancy (woman gets pregnant before marriage), citizenship for one of the spouses. Symbolize an alliance, and/or avoid war in the royal families. ; people tend to have children because they want to carry on family name, lonely/happiness, to have someone take care of them when they get older (old age security) In science, theory is used as a plausible general principle or body of principles offered to explain a social phenomenon (i. e. , atomic theory explains the existence of atoms) A theory is a set of interrelated propositions that explains a particular phenomenon and guide research (the function of theory. A theory is used as a tool to understand the society).