Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Signify, Dependent And Independent Variables
12 Feb 2018
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You obtain concrete experience by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, and hearing. The parts of concrete experience are percepts, which form patterns. We share the level of concrete experience with all living creatures. Abstract experience occurs in your mind; the world of imagination. Concepts are abstract terms for organizing sensory experience. Conceptualization is when you organize your concrete experience by placing the different objects into a single, meaningful category. The mind relates concepts to one another and forms propositions. Propositions are abstract statements that express the relationship between two or more concepts. Propositions emerge when your mind connects concepts in a meaningful way. People use concepts to characterize issues and express propositions about how concepts are related. The distinguishing feature of sociological ideas is that sociologists connect their abstract concepts and propositions to concrete percepts and patterns. Sociologists try to distinguish groundless speculation from reality. Science is required to separate our valid from invalid knowledge.
