Intro to Sociology
Intro to Sociology – 1/28
Book: Sidewalk by Dunier
Available in NYU Bookstore
March 13 – Midterm Exam 30% of Grade
May 15 – Final Exam (8 in the Morning)
Courses are central to the idea of concept & ideas. Readings and course as whole might test hypothesis like pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall (No M/C, small essays).
What is a Social Science?
Empirical, Systematic, Conceptual.
There are other realms that people think like how people believe what a society is; i.e religion, theology -> tests ethics of morality. Philosophy tries to derive truths about social relationships by deducing premises as opposed to social science.
Empirical means evidence is based on experience, instead of having holy text, insight, contemplation, literary figures; the actual experience matters. Philosophers are based on experience.
Systematic -> In a systematic set up for thoughts. Poets filter their expression in their poetry. About social science, it is about the technique, the systematic approach to an issue/question.
Conceptual -> Actual Experience. Not generating random thoughts. There are over-arching concepts that organizes what we experience/choose to experience. There is a concept/theory.
There is a division in academic labor in social science. Our role, what we tend to, like anthropology, in history aspect. Anthropology is about the history of others. Anthropologists take long trips to different places of the world, far away from home. Spend time with exotic others. This is the history of anthropology. Anthropology is seen as colonialistic.
Division of Academic Labor
Anthropology: Exotic Others
Psychology: Individual Consciousness
Study of the individual thought
Political Science: Power and Authority
How things are organized. How we pose rules and regulations.
Economics: Wealth production and distribution
History: What was
-Historical, how were thing carried out in the past
Sociology is
Book: Sidewalk by Dunier
Available in NYU Bookstore
March 13 – Midterm Exam 30% of Grade
May 15 – Final Exam (8 in the Morning)
Courses are central to the idea of concept & ideas. Readings and course as whole might test hypothesis like pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall (No M/C, small essays).
What is a Social Science?
Empirical, Systematic, Conceptual.
There are other realms that people think like how people believe what a society is; i.e religion, theology -> tests ethics of morality. Philosophy tries to derive truths about social relationships by deducing premises as opposed to social science.
Empirical means evidence is based on experience, instead of having holy text, insight, contemplation, literary figures; the actual experience matters. Philosophers are based on experience.
Systematic -> In a systematic set up for thoughts. Poets filter their expression in their poetry. About social science, it is about the technique, the systematic approach to an issue/question.
Conceptual -> Actual Experience. Not generating random thoughts. There are over-arching concepts that organizes what we experience/choose to experience. There is a concept/theory.
There is a division in academic labor in social science. Our role, what we tend to, like anthropology, in history aspect. Anthropology is about the history of others. Anthropologists take long trips to different places of the world, far away from home. Spend time with exotic others. This is the history of anthropology. Anthropology is seen as colonialistic.
Division of Academic Labor
Anthropology: Exotic Others
Psychology: Individual Consciousness
Study of the individual thought
Political Science: Power and Authority
How things are organized. How we pose rules and regulations.
Economics: Wealth production and distribution
History: What was
-Historical, how were thing carried out in the past
Sociology is