SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Georg Simmel, Social Realism, Reductionism
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Soc201: our social life is influence by our biological life, we live largely in the domain of our thoughts and conscious, all of our foods and taboos are culture, not biological. Culture tells us what is appropriate and what is not. Therefore, this highlights that social science focuses on objective perspective, but more on social and cultural perspectives. Historically, social sciences ran into number of cases in social biases/positions: nominalism = reductionism, which reduce complex reality into its parts. It treats the reality as a combination of its parts: economics like to build their assumptions on the human nature of. They are calculating, they seek goods for themselves, and minimize the cost and bads: social realism tends to be the majority - opposite of nominalism = doctrine of emergence (georg simmel) . You can"t reduce their combination to their parts. Only the combination makes what it is, not each of its parts.
