SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sociological Perspectives, Heteronormativity, Group Dynamics
12 Apr 2019
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Imagine picturing yourself in a minority group and how it would feel if others treated you as a second-class person, avoided eye contact. A period during which people began to question everything and to challenge the power and teachings of the church. It was characterized by the assumption that people could understand and explain their universe through their own insight and reflection: positive stage the world would be interpreted through a scientific lens. That society would be guided by the rules of observation, experimentation and logic: positivism is a theoretical approach that considers all understanding to be based on science. A positivist approaches the world through three primary assumptions: there exists an objective knowable reality, physical and social worlds can be understood through observation, experimentation and logic. The new urban and industrial society presented many challenges to both the individual and the collective. Canadianization movement and the women"s movement led a politics of knowledge that proved helpful to both.
