POLS 1150 Midterm: Midterm Textbook Notes SOAN.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Carol L Dauda

Document Summary

Levels of theory social theories can be divided into three broad groupings by the level of social reality with which they deal micro level theory: deals with small slices of time, space, or numbers of people meso level theory: links macro and micro levels and operates at an intermediate level, theories of organizations, social movements, and communities are often at this level macro level theory: concerns the operation of larger aggregates such as social institutions, entire cultural system, and whole societies. Casual explanation: used when the relationship is of cause and effect to establish causality you need 3 things: association, temporal order: cause must come before an effect which established the direction of causality from the cause towards the effect, observable observable the cause and not to something else to prove causality, non observable doesn"t have to be perfect to show causality, general idea, eliminating alternatives: need to the prove that the effect is actually due to.