SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.4-1.8: Social Integration, Lewis A. Coser, Class Conflict
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1. 4 values in sociological research: weber said sociologists should be value free perso(cid:374)al (cid:271)eliefs should(cid:374)"t affe(cid:272)t research. Stress the need of replication: some sociologists say the purpose of their studies is to advance understanding of social life. Others think sociologists have moral responsibility to investigate social arrangements that harm people. 1. 5 verstehen and social facts: verstehen (cid:862)to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d(cid:863) (cid:862)to grasp (cid:271)(cid:455) i(cid:374)sight(cid:863) The best interpreter of human behavior is someone who has been there. Subjective meanings how people interpret their situation in life, how they view what they are doing/what is happening to them. Homeless men being quiet when talked to revealed personal despair: durkheim and social facts. Social facts a groups recurring patterns of behavior. June is for weddings, suicides are higher in the elderly, more births on tuesdays than any other day of the week. We must use social facts to interpret social facts: social facts and verstehen.
