SOC232H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Yellow Wallpaper, The Sociological Imagination, Auguste Comte
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Lecture 1: lemert, social theory: its uses and pleasures and modernity"s classical age, pp. 1-27 in st: gouldner, toward a reflexive sociology, pp. 320-324 in st: mills, the sociological imagination, pp. It can confirm hypothesis: testable idea, gives ability to reason, empirically tested, charles lemert says theory is a normal accomplishment of figuring out what people are doing around each other. It is an idea of mundane, concealed, hidden stuff or common sense stuff (why did you drag yourself to school, who"s sitting where, why did you put your laptop away) Ideas that are relevant in some way or another. Principles of pertinence: principles are ideas, pertinence are its relevant, way to talk about theory. Interdependent: no one needs to know how to make a whole (car or machine) everyone had little tasks in making it. If you want to walk in the shoes of others you must first know what shoes you walk in.
