SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Macrosociology, Dependent And Independent Variables, Auguste Comte
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First women to get phd in sociology at chicago. The method she used for her research is participant observation. Interacting with your participants: working with your participants, he (cid:449)e(cid:374)t out to lear(cid:374) a(cid:271)out (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374) Qualitative: talk to individuals and learning information, not about numbers. Microsociology: most of time its qualitative, looking at individuals. Machines replaced jobs people used to do. Manufactured goods sold all through out the world lots of population lack of housing led to slums child labour, poor working conditions rural to urban. Law of three stages: theological stage (1300s) Beliefs about why the world why how it was religion explained the world sun god, moon god, etc. : metaphysical stage (renaissance & enlightenment) Using scientific reasons to explain the world. People started questioning religion: positive stage (1800s) Positivism, (cid:862)a(cid:374) assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) that e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the (cid:449)orld has a truth i(cid:374) it(cid:863) Where people started looking for the truth. He studied about why people committed suicide.
