Talk:Introduction to Sociology/Sociological Theory

The Grand Theory
Social Phenomena Tengwang777 (discuss • contribs) 18:04, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

what is called Seeing and accepting facts as they are.


 * society is not necessarily made up of fixed facts.

split this article
I think this article should be split up into several, it's starting to get a bit intimidating. --Sanitized (talk) 17:33, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Additions Needed
It seems to me that the following things need to be included in this chapter:

1. At least some minimal reference to all of the big 3 (Marx, Weber, Durkheim) - Specifically Marx and Weber are almost non-existent in this chapter, which is at best problematic. 2. Feminist Theory 3. Theories of Race 4. Queer Theory

I'm not suggesting that the last 3 need to be prominent, but by not even mentioning them, this text misses a good 30% of the theoretical work done in sociology.

This statement seems to me to be naive and wrong: "These theories are prominent because they are quite good at explaining social life." Perhaps it's because the theories APPEAR as quite good at explaining social life. They appear so because: --They way they offer a powerful coherent picture of the mechanisms governing social life --They fit reigning cultural prejudices and interests, particularly of the specialists concerned with elaborating a a social scientific perspective of our world. As should be readily evident, not all the theories can be "quite good at explaining social life" since they radically conflict with each other.