SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Atavism, Mother Teresa, Xyy Syndrome

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Fatemeh Givechian

Document Summary

Paradigm: a way to look at the world, combines certain philosophical idea of what the view for something is like. Theory: the offspring, a collection of ideas that explain a concept. Paradigm: mom or dad, your beliefs, paradigms can cover more than one theory. Absolutism: the consequences of deviance and social problems are absolute real, not in our imagination, a homicide provides a dead body, you cannot say. Oh we interpret that this person is dead . Objectivism: objectively we can study them, it is something out there that we can study, it is not in our object minds. Determinism: when you see deviance and social problems it is caused by something else, society, body, biological aspects, psychological aspects, but it is determined by something, it is not a voluntary act that you want to commit suicide. Constructionism: they say they are not absolute real, it depends on the label we give on deviance and social problems.