SOCB05H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Quasi, Jaywalking, Soltyrei
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Each touches on various issues that others don"t: paradigm = not true/false just different ways of looking open new understanding, suggest theories and inspire research. Early positivism: auguste compte coined term sociologie in 1822 as society as a phenomenon that can be studied scientifically, used to positivism to describe his approach in contrast to previous negative elements. Symbolic interactionism: simmel focused more on micro issues in comparison to marx who focused on macro issues, simmel one of the first to influence sociology in north america focus on interactions influenced. Elements of social theory: paradigms provide ways of looking at life, grounded in a set of assumptions about nature if reality, theories systematic sets of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspects of social life. Theory: begin with theory from which they derive possible hypotheses e. g. as social class goes up, delinquency goes down, delinquency is inversely related to social class.
