SOC101 Lecture Notes - The Sociological Imagination, Qualitative Sociology, Talcott Parsons
19 Nov 2012
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Ravelli, bruce and michelle webber (2009) exploring sociology, pearson canada, toronto. Sociology study of everything that people do as part of a group. Developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influenced by larger social forces . We all have opportunities and constraints put upon us by the larger society, we are part of the larger society (way of thinking) When we see a social phenomena, we try to dig deeper ex/ homeless because they cant get a job, mentally ill, problem, no medication. Think about what is familiar and see it as strange. Our perception of ourselves and other are the products of many factors, for ex/ How have factors such as these affected the person your have become today. Hard science should be applied to the social world. Theological religious outlook, the world is an expression of god. Metaphysical a period of questioning and challenging. Positive rules of observation, experimentation and logic.
