SOC101Y1 Chapter 1-5: SOC101 Textbook & Lecture Notes - MIDTERM #1
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> direct experience or what others tell us: commonsense knowledge = knowledge who"s origin we don"t remember. Objectives of sociology describing the social world understanding the social world influencing or improving the social world in which we live. Symbolic interactionism > main focus is meaning (understand subjective component of ppl), weber, !7: human inquiry and science, the basis of knowledge is 1) agreement and belief & 2) direct experience, be wary of: Affinity vs dogmatism: affinity - a concept speaks to you (likely to give benefit of doubt, dogmatism - concepts which do not speak to you, you don"t regard as true" because you have one theory that has. All the answers, only thing that is right & correct: don"t be dismissive! 1: daily observation is casual and semiconscious > inaccurate, scientific observation is more deliberate and uses tools to guard against inaccurate observations and add a degree.
