SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Web, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault
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Rejects universalism and essentialism by challenging the idea of fixed structures and meaning. Rejects notions of ideas, individuals, institutions and practices have a core, stable essence that defines them for all time and places. Moves away from seeking universal social laws. Focus on how categories come into being and come to be seen the way they are. Dogmatism: the feeling that one theory has all the right answers. Theories: models that offer lenses to allow others to notice something that has not noticed before. Concepts: clusters of cases that allow to distinguish two from each other. Do not be dismissive - of the information that does not fall into your understanding of the world. Two end points on a continuum: idiographic: explaining one case in great detail. Nomothetic: explaining a set of cases using handful of factors: inductive thinking: moves from particular observation to general. Deductive thinking: moves from general to a specific: quantitative & qualitative, pure: interested in understanding.
