SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Counterfactual Thinking, Microsociology, Verstehen
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Comparisons across cases from some form or another. By understanding the particularity of certain past events, individual people, or intellectual concepts, we can better understand our current world. Nomothetic approach sociologists are concerned with commonalities that can be abstracted across phenomena, not the uniqueness of each one. Sociologists formulate hypotheses and theorems about how social life works/worked to draw comparisons to identify abstractable patterns. Psychological and biological science and statistical data analysis) Sociology has a wider array of methods to answer questions (experiments. Psychology focuses on the individual-level dynamics. Sociologists examine group-level dynamics and social structures (supra- Biology deals with intra-individual-level factors that affect our lives. Economics focused on market exchange relations (money) Assume people are out to get the best deal for themselves. Sociologists have more open view of human motivation that includes. Political science focuses on one aspect of social relations, power.
