SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Sex Industry, Street Prostitution, Scientific Theory
3 Oct 2016
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Theories are based on and reflective of social realities, contemplation and questioning of why the social world is at it is inform all theoretical development. Social scientists make their observations w/in a socially mediated framework of their own cultural meanings & symbols is evident their realities assist in the development of theory. Ca sociology is very ca in that respect it generally offers only a marginal recognition to the contributions of aboriginal ca. Indigenous ppl either think of or conceptualize their rltnshp w/n ca = less known. Their views or consider social change processes is unfamiliar. Continuing impact and int. rlnthsp b/n colonialism, knowledge production & social change must be scrutinized. Scientific theory = why things happen but not why things exists. Indigenous knowledge as an objet & all knowledge is rooted in one"s realities and is contextual. Knowledge = differs in substantive ways from western knowledge. Probs that arise = issues of communicability & limits of universalism .
