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Sociological analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.tutorialoutlet.com Reflection Paper 2 is an
exercise in sociological analysis.There is a
wealth of empirical evidence in sociology on, for
instance, discrimination in hiring and promotion.
A few of the studies you've been reading in
recent weeks provide the evidencebase for this
phenomenon yet, the real task for any
sociologist (in my view) is to develop and/or
apply existing theory to explain empirical
relationships. In sociological research, this
approach to theory is often termed 'the search
for social mechanisms' (see Hedstrom and
Swedberg's essay on social mechanisms if
interested in this social scientific approach).
Although you are likely to find all sorts of
fancy and dressedup definitions for theory in
sociology textbooks, I'd like each of you to use
my simple definition in sociology, theories are
explanations of social phenomenon
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