SOCL 2001 Chapter : Intro Research And Methods
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Sociologists study anything that involves two or more people; something that has an affect on two or more people. Sociological theory: an affective theory can prove something today and predict something in the future to be true, emile durkheim. Egoistic: you don"t have friends or maybe family, anomic, occurs when there is a high degree of social change, your purpose is disrupted. Fatalistic: when people know what the goals of society are, but are unable to achieve any. Capitalism and class is the most important relationship you have the owners that are the ruling class and the workers that are the exploited class he argued all of that was because of society. Think of society as a living thing an organism. Every part serves a very specific purpose; everything has a place and the whole organism can"t function unless every organism inside is doing its part. Emphasize the way parts of society are structured determine its stability: conflict perspective.
