SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Chicken Soup, Spurious Relationship, Operationalization
14 Dec 2012
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Reality isn"t something we can perceive objectively experience helps determine how we perceive reality. Levels of experience: the concrete level: concrete experience is obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, or hearing. Percepts are the smallest bits of concrete experience, and patterns are collections of related percepts. The concrete level is the level of experience you share with all living creatures. But if we experienced just the concrete level, life would be all sensations but devoid of meaning (ex. like a newborn baby): the abstract level: the abstract experience is the imaginary world of the mind. It is composed of concepts, which are abstract terms used to organize concrete experience (ex. we use the term pen to organize/conceptualize all pens even though they are not all the same). Propositions are ideas that result from finding the relationship between concepts (ex. The pen is on the table, or this provincial government is the corrupt in canada ).
