SOC SCI 89 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nomothetic, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Anomie
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Specific and describes a process or investigates a relation among some variables. Yet, moving from simple description to theory requires asking: Thus theory is about both explaining and predicting things. Stresses the primacy of biological features of humans as the basis for human behavior. Attitudes, preferences, ideas, beliefs, values - as the basis for. Like the economy, technology, demography, and environmental conditions. Accounts for the facts and details about a single case. A theory that accounts for the success or failure of a mentoring program for incarcerated minors at one juvenile detention center. Accounts for the facts across many cases. A theory that accounts for the success or failure of a mentoring program for incarcerated minors at juvenile detention centers across time (in one state, for example) or across space (across states or regions) Base and superstructure view of the world.
