SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Noodle, Structural Functionalism, Auguste Comte
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These are composed of concepts: abstract terms used to organize concrete experience: concepts allow you to organize and give meaning to concrete experiences. If your mind relates two concepts it is called a proposition: abstract statements connection the relationship between two concepts. Reality construction and confirmation: objectivity: degree of consistency between the observations of the independent observers. Insiders in a maze can see and appreciate the detail within the maze and the outsiders can see the whole maze (insiders see the tree and outsiders see the forest) Interpretivists assume social realities are subjective and are controlled by culture and historical experiences which cannot be observed directly and are measured qualitatively: durkheim is a positivist. Inductive reasoning: going from specific case to a general one, identifies general patterns in themes and makes a general conclusion about them (looks for generalities and and then groups them together for a shared characteristic)
