SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Alternative Hypothesis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2111
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Displacement theory: being removed from something being online is asocial and competes with face-to-face social time. Critical theory the study of society that focuses on the need for social change: ask moral and political questions for marx the point is not to study the world as it is, but to change it. Value judgements about society critical theorists reject goals that sociologists (some) adhere to: seek to change not only society but the character research itself. Hearing what people from that community want to do to change it for the better. Works to undermine legitimacy of those social institutions that help to organize means of exploitation or injustice: exploitation or injustice. Positivism encourages us to exercise control over particular aspects of our environment. Critical theory allows us to reflect in a critical way about how our society operates it seeks to change society: limitations, understand the way reality is socially constructed.