SOCI 1010 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Participatory Action Research, The Sociological Imagination, European Canadian
28 Nov 2016
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The social is adjacent to other domains (cultural, political, economic) The emergence of social and society is a result of 3 revolutions: 18th-19th century: scientific: Religion to scientific: age of reason to systematic inquiry to scientific method: hypothesis, observation, experimentation, conclusion. The legacy of scientific revolution vs. positivism: there exists an objective and knowable reality. 1: all sciences will become alike since they all explain the same, singular reality (everything explained through the same approach) free of value judgments. Anti-positivism: a. reality does not pre-exist its representation (everything is a construct) The legacy of political revolution: social justice of orientation (strong): people believe that perhaps all people are equal and should be treated equal, secularization of inquiry: religion; one must keep religious beliefs to the side. ^--no longer needed a large amount of human energy. August comte believed that we can study society based on ideas revolving science:
