SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Dogma, Symbolic Interactionism, Nomothetic
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Sociology can help us find out where we fit into society as individuals and how we can make society fit us. Babbie: sociology is the study of our rules for living together, what they are, how they arise, and how they change. Recursive quality to human life that makes anything we know tentative. (things are not static so you have to keep doing things to stay current. More pressing need for sociological insights today than any other time in history. Tradition & authority provide us with starting points, but should not be the end. Science is about meticulously controlling for these errors and goes beyond tradition and authority. In the first place sociology, unlike common sense makes an effort to subordinate itself to the rigorous rules of responsible speech. Second, there is a size of the field from which the material for sociological thinking is drawn.
