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The Three Minute Sociologist: Who Cares about Theory? Why?!

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Uploaded by on May 22, 2009

Overview -
1. The false dichotomy between theory and practice..
2. Why is sociological theory valuable to you?
3. Basic research is used in building theory
4. Applied research uses theories.
5. The better the theories the better the decisions we can make about life.

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  • I love theory. It's a part of my course that feeds my passion.

  • where are your new lectures? [I'm sure you're getting beauty rest {&not drinking lol}]

    The most important knowledge -to base theory on- is "where you grew up {regional poli?geography}" as that is the typically most concealed info, that cannot be easily detected like intelligence, compassion or ethnicity.

    The "geo-genetics" of GENEral happiness makes history great, or, ambiguos.

    With a "unified social theory" one can open doors with telekenisis, and those doors tell the deepest truth. I took 101

  • Why are you always wearing blue?

  • I have a slight highlt developed problem with "understanding" and that's the normative invisible scape goat, a statistical norm normative victim.... well it is sacreligious to "understand them", or else it wouldn't be a problem, look at Kurt Cobain, "nobody" could or would "care" [medicate maybe] about this statistical norm lefties who grow up west of rockies die young or dodge fate miraculously -family positive fracture

  • theories

    framworks

    common definitions

    phenomenon

    groups of people

    sounds fun

    =D

    Hurray for sociology the youngest and broadest of all sciences.--course that is debatable.

  • Conflict........vs......functi­onal.........ummmmm

    does it matter. Well, I think conflict really does work in the long run.

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