Sociology 2240E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hermeneutics, Anomie, Dialectic
7 Dec 2016
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The scienti c and systematic study of patterned social interactions in society. The sociological perspective is the study of social order, social disorder, and social change. Sociological perspectives: general in particular, strange in familiar, individual within social context. A systematic setting out of ideas that relates many events together and brings out their similarities. Systems of generalized statements or propositions about phenomena. Scienti c theories explain and predict phenomena in question, and produce testable and falsi able hypotheses. Social theories are connected to our everyday lives: based on assumptions that people bring with them about the world around them, can impact people"s behaviour. 1: macro vs micro, describing vs explaining. 5 key characteristics of canada: multicultural, free, equal, democratic, meritocracy: not true, all of these are part of an ideology) Social strati cation hierarchy: ranking structure where people are often ranked according to class, income ,education, race, sex/gender/sexual orientation, occupation.
