Introduction

 



Address the following questions fully and completely in your own words and voice; save your answers electronically. You will see at least one of these questions on your next unit exam in which you will be asked to demonstrate that you have read and mastered the material. Prepare your answers now. 
  1. What is the difference between micro-sociology and macro-sociology?
  2. Why does this course focus exclusively on macro-sociology?
  3. What is a paradigm?
  4. Explain the following quote: "Facts discipline reason; but reason is the advance guard in any field of learning"?  Of what relevance is this quote to social theory?
  5. Please explain the title of the Prologue to Macrosociology. Why is the past relevant in social theory?
  6. Of what use is social theory?  

Required Readings:

Macrosociology: Four Modern Theorists, Prologue: The Past 

Sociocultural Systems: Contemporary Expression of Classical Theory. Introduction

 

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