SOCI 300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 300
• Professor: Valerie De Courville Nicol

Document Summary

Knowledge comes from human observation, the center of the empirical worldview. 2: his effort is to map out what society is and how we can study it, wanted to not only know society but transform human agency over social development (to change it). We do not study to know, but to influence and transform in a positive direction, achieve human perfection (enlightenment goals): positivism refers also to the political and social interventions. What are the laws that are independent of time or place? (rules that do not change based on the time period or environment we are in. ) 5: knowledge is always produced in a political context and tends to reinforce existing power relations. Reinforces such relations such as gender and race: much more concerned with values, with changing the world according to a vision of a better one. Like interpretive theory, the world is constituted around our interpretation of it.