Sociology 2240E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, The Spirit Of The Laws, Dikw Pyramid

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Amanda Zavitz

Document Summary

You are responsible for the following chapters/lectures: understanding social theory, social structural explanations, enlightenment philosophy, romantic conservative reaction, the birth of sociology, durkheim, marx, weber, early women sociologist. The scientific study of human social activity achieved through recognizing both general patterns in specific situations and specific patterns in general situations. Sociology is the systematic study of human society. C. wright mills, 1959. sociology is the study of social order, social disorder and social change. Social theory: is a systematic setting out of ideas that relates many events together and brings out their similarities. it is a framework for understanding society; how society works, and the way people interact within society. Sociology differs in 4 key ways deduction: general to specific. functionalism, conflict theories and rational choice theory. inductive: specific to general. symbolic interactionists and phenomenologists. macro: society/society expectations micro: individual describing: what explaining: why. 1)what is social theory: framework for understanding sociology, and the ideas/behaviours within society.