SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Spurious Relationship, Antipositivism, Critical Theory

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

Document Summary

Basics of sociological invesigaion: starts with 2 simple requirements: apply the sociological perspecive and be curious and ask quesions, science as one form of truth. E. g. placing dead ish on top of seeds to honor harvest but in reality, the decomposiion helps growth. Science: a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systemaic observaion. Scieniic knowledge rests on empirical evidence: informaion we can verify with our senses: common sense vs scieniic evidence. Three ways to do sociology: scieniic sociology. Study of society based on systemaic observaion of social behaviours. Concept: a mental construct that represents some part of the world in simpliied form. Variable: concept whose value changes from case to case. Measurement: procedure for determining the value of a variable in a speciic case. Operaionalize a variable: specifying exactly what is to be measured before assigning a value to a variable.