SOCC31H3 Chapter Notes -Grounded Theory, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Inductive Reasoning
28 Oct 2012
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Theories - help us explain future events, help make sense of patterns, and lastly shape and direct research efforts, pointing towards likely discoveries through empirical observations. Paradigms ways to organize and reference our observations and reasoning (different views) We can see other peoples paradigms, and also step out of our own to explore and explain things. I. e. earth revolves around the sun; changed views now say sun revolves around the earth. Therefore, no paradigm can be true or false. Macrotheory looks at large whole units of society or even whole societies. Microtheory deals with issues of social life at the level of individuals and small groups. Comte acknowledged the fact that society could be studied scientifically, explanations of society revolved around religion and god but he changed that belief. Karl marx saw society as a process of conflict, people avoid being dominated by others and dominating others instead (conflict between economic classes) macro issues .
