SOC101 Final: SOC 101 Final: Main Concepts from all Lectures and Textbook Readings (ONLINE - Exploring Sociology: A Canadian Perspective 3rd Edition)
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Note: it is highly recommended that you combine this study note with my other exam notes: There are no major theories or de nitions included in this study note. Positivist approach views science as the rightful foundation of all understanding, it says that there exists a single, objective reality that is knowable through observation, experimentation and logic. Anti-positivists state that we cannot understand our social world solely through science, we need to appreciate human subjectivity and judgement of moral value. Canadian sociology is in uenced by four factors that differentiate it from american tradition: geography and regionalism, political economy, the canadianization movement and its radical nature. C. w mills: emphasized that individuals and society are linked and we cannot fully understand one without the other. Peter berger: de nes the sociological perspective as the ability to view the world from two distinct yet complementary perspectives: seeing the general in the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar.
