SOCI 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Collective Behavior, Auguste Comte, Symbolic Interactionism

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Office location and hours: thursdays @ 10:30am (before the lecture) Course is going to differentiate the collective behaviours and then relate them to each other, and see how they are interlinked. Make sure to purchase both of the required textbooks for the course (bookstore). There will be weekly presentations (will start on the third week - sept. 22). Social change (society is always changing due to collective behaviour) These things are constantly feeding off of each other. Sociology (defined in intro. course): the scientific study of human society. August comte (founding father) early 19th century believed that society can be studied the same way in which the natural world is. (cid:862)the h(cid:455)pothesis testi(cid:374)g(cid:863) the scientific approach: objective, review of literature, state hypothesis, figure out methodology, analysis, conclusions. From concepts we develop propositions on how the world functions. Hypothesis are called theories and groups of inter-related theories are called paradigms.

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