SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Reductionism, Rob Ford, Single Parent

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: G R Frank Pearce

Document Summary

10 questions and 6 will be on the exam sort of deal. There will be an essay question on the exam. Abstract: only some of the elements, relations and processes of theoretical discourse may be perceivable by humans i. e. atoms you cannot see them but you can infer that they exist. Society is equally inaccessible to perception you can t perceive culture or community in a tactile, physical way. Social rules that are unspoken but are known (socialised) are abstract i. e. how a group of people act when they are drunk. Common sense which relies at best on generalisations derived from limited experiences i. e. stereotypes such as women are careful drivers. Dogma which assumes unquestionable elements in its discourse, e. g. religion and god. A social theory is a discourse based on inter-related rigorously defined sets of concepts, arguments, models and questions: Culture passed down through generations and its effect on institutions.