SOC 1100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Limitations of scientific sociology: behaviour and complicated, canadians are the highest diversity group that does weed, human behaviour is too complex to predict individual actions. Critical sociology: work for equality, sociology as politics. Week 1: they want to end wage gaps, end racism, etc. Methods and theory: scientific sociology corresponds to the structural approach, these kinds of sociologists use survey"s and other scientific ways, critical sociology is linked to the social-conflict approach. Interpretive sociology is related to the symbolic-interaction approach. Women as methodologists: feminist researchers claim the research focus on the condition of women in the society, research should be grounded in women"s experience of subordination, among women founders of social science, harriet martineau, florence nightingale. User available data: secondary and historical analysis, reanalyzing the data that was collected by someone else, content analysis, counting the content of written, aural, or visual material, ex: tv, websites, etc.