SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Positivism, Microstructure, Social Inequality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The social construct of reality is based on of the works of alfred schutz. Der sinnhafte aufbau de socialen welt german title. Sinn (sense, meaning, sensibility) hafte (prision), auf (make something explode), bau(building) direct translation. The enlightenment and the nature of knowledge. What a huge impact the enlightenment had on what we assume is whats happening around us. The interrelation of macro and microstructure and agency, object and subject. The notion of what was theological shifted to metaphysical. A positive science, the basic of empirical knowledge. Sociology would look a lot like the theory of relativity. The level of action ( i don"t like this ) The level of imagination (this is not how i imagines it ) The world is external and opposed to us. Intellect assesses (makes sense of the world, classifies, categorizes) Emotion gives us a sense or feel for the world.