SOC334 Study Guide - Protestantism, Collective Behavior, Worship God

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Power is a contested concept in social theory. We will consider how power is problematic in everything. Review of major elementary concepts macro micro meso levels of analysis. Weber: using the word power to say that something happened that was powerful. Metatheory the basic suppositions of any theoretical system and sound social science a way of studying the constuction of social theory, its methods, and data analysis theory is like an underlaborer. Ontology statements about the nature of stuff. it is the qua. what kinds of things are there in the world? different schools: Power in hobbes, power is a possession that helps to influence other actors. Power as a concrete event, a consequence of relations, that produces a benefit for some group in society. Weber unequivocably believes we should be value neutral in our pursuit of this knowledge. He is looking for a purely historical discussion, we should not be burdened with whether capitalism is good or bad.

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