SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Roland Robertson, Culture Shock, Conflict Theories
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Introducing sociology: durkheim showed that social structures influence even apparently nonsocial and antisocial actions. Specifically, he showed how levels of social solidarity affect suicide rates: because of the rise in youth suicide, the pattern of suicide rates in. Canada today is not exactly the same in durkheim"s france. A theory is a tentative explanation of some aspect of social life. It states how and why specific facts are connected. The tension between autonomy and constraint, prosperity and inequality, and diversity and uniformity are among the chief interests of sociology today. Human inquiry and science: this book"s subject is how we find out about social reality. Much of ordinary human inquiry seeks to explain events and predict future events: much of what we know, we know by agreement rather than by experience. Two important sources of agreed-upon knowledge are tradition and authority. Researchers seek to avoid illogical reasoning by being as careful and deliberate in their reasoning as in their observations.
