[Sociology 2206A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 30 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: Donna Maynard

Document Summary

A system of ideas that are used to explain the causes/ and consequences of (social) phenomena. Also de ne social integration, anomie etc: descrpitions of the phenomena of interest: Theories suggest ways that concepts are related to one another. * if you know something about one, you know something about the other. As social integration increases, the suicide rate decreases. (cid:2942) job, family integrate. Deterministic: the two concepts or variables always go together. >> as social integration increases, the suicide rate decreases. Probabilistic: they regularly, but not always go together. Use terms like more likely, less likely make reference to the odds of one thing happening, given the other. >>suicide becomes less likely as social integration increases. Nb: the latter is by far the most common in social research. All encompassing with regards to time and space. Ex/ structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, critical theory, post- structuralism, post- modernism etc.