Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Auguste Comte, Reductionism, Earthbound
6 Apr 2013
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Material existence ie. piagets concrete operational is a lot easier to see than seeing society you must create society before examining it. You are able to give examples of society/economy (ie. money, stores) but you are unable to point to society or economy . You have to imagine what it is like as a whole. Ie. uwo = institution norms, values, structures not buildings. Objective (factual) because we can imagine that no one would disagree ie. she is a girl we can see that. Stencil that represents 6 basic questions that any social theorists have to be capable of answering. Organicism: the person is part of the system, institution and the social bonds between them more than the sum of its parts. We can explain human behavior because of what we have been through. Nurture is always at work once we"re social there is no nature.
