SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Circulatory System, Skeleton, Organism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Sociology is organized as a science and has a number of characteristics in common with other sciences. They solve a central problem or a set of related central problems. A characteristic of every science is that they are factually based. We don"t all use the same research methods to make our observations. Another characteristic of every science is that you find within that science a specialized language. When you learn a science, you learn the definitions of the concepts that the scientists used. These concepts are used by scientists to interpret the observations made and for the construction of that theory. Today: systematically look at the concepts most used by sociologists. In relation to sociology, it is the concepts that give you the insight into the study. They are not all the same, but they share similarities. It is because of these similarities that we can group them together.