SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Spurious Relationship, Critical Theory, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Common sense vs. scientific evidence we have all been brought up believing widely accepted truths", being bombarded by expert advice, and feeling pressured to accept the opinions of people around us. As adults, we need to evaluate more critically what we see, read, and hear. 100% value-free when conducting social research: interpretive sociology: the study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world. People construct reality as they attach meanings to their behaviour. Researcher develops a qualitative account of the subjective sense people make of their world. Reality is that some categories of people dominate others. Research is a strategy to bring about desired social change. Social-conflict approach: gender: the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female, five ways in which gender can shape research, androcentricity approaching an issue from a male perspective; gynocentricity.