SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Verstehen, Labeling Theory, White-Collar Crime
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Theoretical perspectives- the conceptual frameworks that sociologists use to make sense of the world, they are used to explain and analyze various social actions, social processes, and how social structures work. Ways of looking at social phenomenon and their relationships to each other. You start out with a theory, because of deductions, you get a hypothesis. When you analyze that you get empirical generalizations. Deduction: theory to hypothesis to observation to confirmation and back again. An example of someone who does this is sherlock holmes. Induction: observation to pattern to tentative hypothesis to theory and back again. An example of someone who does this is dr. house. md. Macro sociology: study of large scale and long-term social processes of organizations, social structure, institutions and broad social patterns. It also provides the social context in which micro-level action occurs. Micro-sociology: study of social interaction, human behavior is based on individual"s interpretation of a situation and the meaning they give it, everyday life.