SOCB05H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Random Assignment, Distributive Justice, Symbolic Interactionism
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Chpt 2 theories function in three ways, 1. Theories make sense of observed patterns in ways that can suggest other possibilities. 3, theories can shape and direct research efforts pointing out toward likely discouveries through empirical observation. Some research don t seek to explain like theories but seek to describe. Paradigm: model or framework for observation and understanding which shapes both what we see and how we understand. The conflict paradigm causes us to see social behaviour one way; the interactionist paradigm causes us to see diff. - macrotheory: aimed at understanding the big picture of instituitions, whole societies & interactions among societies. Microtheory: theory aimed at understanding social life at the intimate level of individuals and interactions. Eg play of behaviour of girls differs from boys. Comte coined together the phrase positivism to describe to describe scientific approach in contrast to whathe regard as negative elements in the enlightenment. Conflict paradigm: aroused from new view of evolution of capitalism.
