History * Biographical Research * Focus Groups * Grounded Theory * Ethnography | 2pm-6 00pm/A/RSH2pm-6 00pm/B/AA | 3/ 28th May | 3. Analytic Framework I * Narrative Research * Feminist Approaches * Foucaltian Framework * Ethnomethodology | 2pm-6 00pm/A/RSH2pm-6 00pm/B/AA | 4/ 29th May | 4. Analytic Framework II * Conversation Analysis * Discourse Analysis * Critical Discourse Analysis | 2pm-6 00pm/A/RSH2pm-6 00pm/B/NZ | 5/ 30th May | 5. Field Relations * Ethnography
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Key Concepts for Chapter 1 1. How did sociology develop? What is positivism? Sociology is the study of human behavior in society‚ and the sociological imagination is the ability to see societal patterns that influence individual and group life. Sociology is an empirical discipline‚ relying on careful observations as the basis for its knowledge. Positivism: is a system of though in which accurate observation and description is considered the highest form of knowledge‚ as opposed to religious
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Sociology 101 Rogers and Yan 8/27/12 What makes you‚ you? We Study: Sports Music Religion Medicine What is sociology? 1. The study of human society 2. Examines the relationship between history and biography 3. Uses the scientific method 4. Looks at social structures‚ patterns‚ and meaning Original Founders of Sociology Augste Compte 1798-1857 One of the first people to try to understand society and morality using science rather than theology He thought there could be a kind
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Question 1 1. Following C. Wright Mills‚ sociologists refer to breaking free from the immediacy of personal circumstances and putting things in a wider social context as the: a. sociological imagination b. psychologization process c. emergence theory d. recognition of self e. accumulation of capital 1 points Question 2 1. According to the text‚ __________ involve constructing abstract interpretations that can be used to explain a wide variety of situations. a
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a specific organization or event‚ rather a than surface description of a large sample of a population. It aims to provide an explicit rendering of the structure‚ order‚ and broad patterns found among a group of participants. It is also called ethnomethodology or field research. It generates data about human groups in social settings. Qualitative research does not introduce treatments or manipulate variables‚ or impose the researcher’s operational definitions of variables on the participants.
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL READINGS IN SOCIOLOGY RESOURCE MATERIALS FOR CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION (CAPE) SYLLABUS IN SOCIOLOGY Contributor: Dr. Nasser Mustapha Mr. Bennie Berkeley Ms. Vashti Deochan CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL WESTERN ZONE OFFICE SOCIOLOGY RESOURCE MATERIAL CONTENTS UNIT 1 # TITLE PAGE Preface MODULE 1 SOCIOLOGY‚ CULTURE AND IDENTITY Chapter 1 The Development of Sociology Chapter 2 How
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Blumer and symbolic interactionism: He propos es 3 fundamental premises. (1) “Human beings act as toward things on the basis of the meanings which theses things have for them”. Meanings are not intrinsically in things in the world; they have to be defined before they have any human reality. This applies to other human beings‚ social organizations‚ to ideals‚ as well as physical objects themselves. Everything that people act upon or that has an impact upon them must go through the process of subjective
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In 1967 ‘The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research’ was first published and this introduced what has become the most influential paradigm for qualitative research in the social sciences today‚ the methodology of grounded theory (GT) (Cutcliffe‚ 2005‚ p.421; Patton‚ 2002‚ p.124). Despite being heralded as revolutionary in the history of qualitative traditions‚ it is the most frequently disputed and misunderstood of all the research methods‚ likely due to the methodological
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Sociology Holiday Homework 3. Asses the view that interpretive theories are more relevant than structural theories for understanding modern societies Interpretivist sociologists may be more relevant for understanding the workings of modern societies‚ which propagate individualism and freedom of choice more than societies before. Other schools of thought‚ namely structuralism‚ disagree and challenge this view by stating that their own theories are still significant and criticising interpretivism
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PÀ£ÁðlPÀ gÁdå G¥À£Áå¸ÀPÀgÀ CºÀðvÁ ¥ÀjÃPÉë (PÉ-¸Émï)-2013 KARNATAKA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (K-SET) FOR LECTUERSHIP - 2013 (Accredited by UGC‚ New Delhi) Conducted by University of Mysore (as the SET agency) Syllabus‚ Question Paper Pattern and Sample Questions Subject code: 07 Subject: SOCIOLOGY University of Mysore‚ Mysore -570005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------University K-SET Center‚ Pareeksha Bhavan
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