SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Subjectivism, Sociological Theory, Precession
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Sociology: study of human behaviour in a social context, human society. People who interact in a de ned territory and share a culture. It is a set of forces exerted by people over one another and over themselves. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institution, society is the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. Theory: a conjecture about the way in which two facts are related. Sociological theories are statements about how and why particularfacts about the social world are related. A world view, a way of ordering and simplifying the perceptual world"s stunning complexity by making certain fundamental assumptions about the nature of the universe, of the individual and of society. Paradigms are normative; they determine what the practitioner views as important and unimportant, reasonable and unreasonable, legitimate and illegitimate, possible and impossible, and what to attend to and what to ignore.
