SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naimans, Symbolic Interactionism, Macrosociology
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Detailed information will be posted on portal - read carefully! No class on october 18th - instructor will hold additional office hours. Sociological imagination shows the connection between personal troubles and public uses. Social problems can only be addresses if this connection is understood: naiman: personal troubles should be connected to issues of distal power. Theory: a tentative explanation of some aspect of social life stating how and why specific facts are connected. Research: the process of carefully observing social reality to test the validity of a theory. Values: ideas about desirability/worth of attributes, people, objects, and processes. But a sociologist"s biases must be declared and minimized by rigorous research method (naiman). Functionalism (19th c. anthropology) and structuralism (1940s american sociology: mostly macrosociology, naiman: an order theory , human behaviour is governed by stable patterns of social relations (social structures). Conscience collective (collective consciousness) exists in all societies.
