SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Altruistic Suicide, Symbolic Interactionism, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
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* come to understand the main competing approaches of sociology and see how they can be fused together to give us an understanding of society. * learn about the history and development of sociology as a social scientific discipline. * 2 social revolutions were important for growth of sociology. > industrial revolution (people into harsh urban conditions) > the french revolution (convinced that new social and political arrangements were possible) > how we view and judge different pictures of reality. * reasons why we do things this way and they do things that way. * using common sense to understand the world is not enough. * the central goal of sociologists is to replace such faulty common sense reasoning with scientific explanation. * 2 main microanalytical approaches that have emerged in sociology are the structural functional theory and critical theory.
