[SOC1101] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 34 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Political revolutions: suggested that people could change society. Industrial revolution and urbanization: presented social thinkers with a host of pressing social problems crying out for a solution. Scientific revolution: suggested that a science of society was possible, there used to only be philosophers talking about the ideals of society, what it should be. Concerned with the fast and rapid changes from industrial revolution. Focus was on meaningful social action: the motives that underlie human behavior. Was looking at the social actors, he didn"t think that they were conditioned by the rest of society. He wanted to know the ways in which people interpret and explain their own behavior and that of others. He wanted to see how they affected the social order. He believed that understanding required being able to put yourself in the shoes of the people you are observing: verstehen (understanding, insight) He saw the importance of ideas, values, and beliefs of people.