SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antipositivism, Social Forces
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Sociology: the systematic study of human groups and their interactions. Sociological perspective: a view of society based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live. C. w mills proposed concept of sociological imagination: the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces in uence individual lives. Quality of mind: the ability to view personal circumstances within a social context. August compte - father of sociology: comte borrowed scienti c methodologies from the hard sciences and applied them to social inquiry. Socioeconomic status ranking people into a hierarchy structure. 3 revolutions that contributed to birth of sociology: origins of sociology. Scienti c revolution: applying scienti c principles to understand our world, observation, experimentation, logic could be applied to understanding the social world, based on positivism - objective, scienti c approach, anti-positivism - subjective approach (our own ideas, quantitative/qualitative methodologies.
