SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knowledge Engineering, Nomothetic
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What is sociology: sociology - systematic study of human action in context, human action what human beings do, what they feel, what they think, as it appears in particular historical, cultural, economic, and social contexts. Distantiation: eyes of an outsider, gaining insights through increased social distance is distantiation, e. g. Friend who has distance from a couple"s relationship are able to gain insights, patterns, etc. of the relationship to understand what is going on: e. g. Science: a body of knowledge about reality as well as a set of systematic methods for generating this knowledge, science offers a special approach to the business of inquiry: Methodology: a set of practices and techniques used to collect, process, and interpret information aimed at enhancing our understanding of reality. Idea that there are different ways to classify different types of research. Idiographic explaining one case in great detail: e. g.
