SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Falsifiability, Social Actions
2 Feb 2017
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Chapter 2: nature and type of sociological theory. Theories ae based on different epistemologies= examination of the process by which humans can have knowledge. *make different assumptions about the basis of knowledge. Theory= must explain empirical world/ abstract representations of empirical world. Key things of theories and concepts: simplifies world by categorizing, must explain world, both make connections on different components of both physical and theoretical world. *ca(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e theo(cid:396)(cid:455) o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat has(cid:374)"t o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)ed (cid:455)et. Symbolic acquisition of knowledge gained through language: epistemology. Definition: examination of processed by which humans can have knowledge: understand the world how it is. Knowledge is acquired through: senses, symbols, * both senses and symbols catch cultural differences and create a language that filters the information received. Different epistemologies contain different interpretations of the world: **different types of epistemologies all complement one another, are not mutually exclusive. Language affects the way we think: ex: children learning language are also simultaneously learning how to think.
