SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Cumulate Rock, Government Cut
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The goal of social scientists should be to contribute to human well being create conditions of social justice, equality, and respect for human rights. In order to achieve this, we must first understand the processes or forces or mechanisms that lead to inequalities, injustices, and human rights violations. Question by seeing the strange in the familiar. Sociology is not just a tool to study societies, but also change them. Ubuntu you can only be fully human through the humanity of others. This means that if others people"s right of being human is denied and we are aware of it, then we are not being fully human ourselves. Humans are interrelated we can only be fully human when by nature, we are striving to humanize others. Premised on the belief that social scientists should work towards increasing or promoting human well-being.
