SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter CHAPTER 1-8: The Sociological Imagination, Altruistic Suicide, General Social Survey
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Result of the growth of the industry which moved people from the country to the city. 2. the meaning of a symbol resides in what the symbol refers to and so symbols. Speci cally they say there are 3 negative consequences: 1. it hurts students who are members of a minority group forcing them to spend too much time on non-core subject. Because all my parents friends started off poor and are now middle class) u are discounting for everyone else in the population that that doesn"t happen to. They assume that social realities exist independent and are out there waiting to be discovered. Positivist viewpoint, is to develop tools to observe and measure objective social reality in a quantitative manner -> serveys and statistics. Believe that all understanding is contingent and meaningfully constructed based on historical, cultural, and social experience. Emphasize that the key drivers of human conduct (meanings and motives) cannot be observed directly.