SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cyprus Dispute

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

What do the social sciences do: social science examines social change, look at change at different levels. Individual, interpersonal, groups, clans, nations, etc: look at change in different social spheres. Family, social, cultural, political, economic: two aspects to their examination, what type of change is happening. They collect and analyze data (the empirical moment: why/how change occurs. Develop casual explanations (the theoretical moment: the link between the empirical and the theoretical. 2. 1) how the social science characterie society: different social sciences investigate features of society, characterize societies by the features that they are most concerned, sociology, concerned with groups and their reproduction, social status, social. Reproduction, diversity: categorize, economics, concerned with forms of production (&exchange, categorize society according to the dominant features of their economies, hunter gather societies, pastoral societies, agriculture. Moved from manufacturing- to new sources of power, steam engine, mechanical, trains, industrial.