SOCIOL 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Auguste Comte, Solidarity, Society 1
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Sociological methods: follows a method of asking questions, constructs theories that answer the questions, tests those theories to see if they hold up to evidence, comes to a logical answer to the question based on verifiable facts. Theory: a claim; a logical explanation about a causal relationship between two or more aspects of social life. Data: systematically collected observations; evidence that supports or refutes theory. Society: collective conscious: the common faith or set of norms in which members of society abide. Suicide: based on a balance between social integration and social regulation: social integration: the degree to which you are integrated into your social group or community. Social regulation: how many rules guild your daily life; the degree of external constraint on people: egoistic: not enough integration; depression, rates varied substantially across religious affiliations, protestants killed themselves most often followed by.
