SOCA02H3 Midterm: Textbook & Lecture Notes for Midterm
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Are all ways of life equally futile, or is it possible to live a meaningful life. Lead researchers to formulate and adopt favoured theories for interpreting and explaining those problems. Methods used to gather data mould researchers" perception. A sociologists values may reflect the typical perceptions. Biases often lead us to draw incorrect conclusions. Sociologists have tried to develp[ ways of collecting, observing, and thinking about evidence. Descriptive studies -> tells you what happened, descriptive. Descriptive -> describing during a period of time. Static descriptive -> describing something in a specific time (ex. Building blocks of sociological research micro vs. macro. Concepts label used to identify different things. You cant do research unless you vary the concept. Measurements researchers use mental concepts/constructs (race, gender) some concepts have more than one value (variables, height, wealth) Social integration -> social solidarity -> need to feel apart of something (dirkheim) Social solidarity is weak in cities and strong in rural areas.
