SOC231H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Protestant Work Ethic, Chase Bank, Ideal Type
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Methodology of the social sciences; types of social action. Life and times: personal and family life. Weber"s sociology: two major themes: forms of social action, class and power, gradual rationalization of social life: bureaucracy. Action: (when the) acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to his (her) behaviour. Sociology: an interpretive and causal social science. Why is a purely causal question; no intention or meaning . Bacteria don"t blush; particles don"t get pissed off! Sociology: no laws because social action is intentional. Sociology: aims to understand (why) and explain events (causal analysis) Sociology: subjective meanings but objective analysis is possible. Science derives from values, but cannot tell individuals what they ought to do (jp morgan chase. Science: provides a sense of probable results of pursuing particular means for obtaining particular ends. Social science cannot help us choose between competing values. Justice earl warren (chief justice, us supreme court) internment of the japanese and civil rights.
