SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Natural Science
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Intellectual power, increase sophistication, conceptual tools that help you make sense of things around you (industrialization, morality, etc. ) They"re generative; you can always find something new in it and world- defining as it defines a way of thinking and feeling. Natural science and humanity trying to give a general portrayal of the world. They also produce concepts like nature of society (marx). Sociological- the study of interaction and how groups are held together, make them more than just an individual. Theory- a greek word that means theatre; stepping out of the normal world, observe as an outsider and understand it. It"s an abstract (meaning of something) rather than empirical. Ex: particular- cda has large bureaucracy (one country), it isn"t a not theory as it isn"t general. General theory- as society becomes modern, they adopt bureaucracy. Explosion of commerce that slowly started in 16th century and rapidly in the 18th-19th century.
