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Can someone explain to me the sociological world view of Realism?
I don't understand. I been to the professor and a sociology tutor on top of that and I still don't understand realism. Maybe if I put what it means on this board some scholars will help this dummy to understand and dumb her up.
REALISM: As defined by teacher:
This view combines positive and idealist theories. It theorizes that social objects exist independently but believes in human conceptions of these objects which cause them to exist in the human mind. There is an invisible but real structure and one has to uncover it and specify the effects. Conceptual things may not be observable , but they are underlying. Methods of research involve developing models to reveal underlying structure by6 abstractions that count as explanations and are understandable and generalized.
CAN ANYONE HELP PUT THIS TO ME IN LAMENS TERMS?
THANKS!
Princess
I don't understand. I been to the professor and a sociology tutor on top of that and I still don't understand realism. Maybe if I put what it means on this board some scholars will help this dummy to understand and dumb her up.
REALISM: As defined by teacher:
This view combines positive and idealist theories. It theorizes that social objects exist independently but believes in human conceptions of these objects which cause them to exist in the human mind. There is an invisible but real structure and one has to uncover it and specify the effects. Conceptual things may not be observable , but they are underlying. Methods of research involve developing models to reveal underlying structure by6 abstractions that count as explanations and are understandable and generalized.
CAN ANYONE HELP PUT THIS TO ME IN LAMENS TERMS?
THANKS!
Princess
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
If it is called realism, its bound to make little sense!! Dont give up!
Hugs
It says social constructs, such as groups (friends, cliques, etc) either official or unorganized, exist for themselves autonomous of any individual within them. It states that human consciousness and recognition of these social objects cause them to exist and give them realism in the human mind.
That's basically it, as from what I can understand of the definition. It's hard to put it in any less academic terms than that. I don't know if I can "dumb it down" any more. Let me introduce you to my two good friends.
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could you help me understand this.....
http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/realism-for-social-sciences.html
I think I understand it a little more than I did before!
Now to go about putting structures to eating people
in the survivors of the andes crash is gonna be the hard
part......
I am sure their catholic religion plays a part in their faiths and place in society but I have no Idea how to explain it........
Positivist theory: Everything that exists in the world is REAL and UNMOVABLE. For example, rocks just ARE because they ARE. Cancer is cancer because it IS. Love is LOVE- it is a "natural" human emotion that has always been the way it is. There are moral things, and amoral things- that is just the way "things are."
Idealism theory: Everything that exists in the world exists only because humans conceive of them and think of them. Without humans- nothing has any meaning. For example, people "invented" love, hatred, sexuality, the concept of work, etc. None of this stuff exists in the "natural" world. Extreme version of this theory claim that everything is "socially constructed"- including illness, sadness, etc.
Realism: So, the combination of the two looks like this: There are "real" objects in the world- there really are "abnormal cells" that cause cancer, there really are emotions, there really are rocks, etc- but these things only have meaning in the social world. Nothing in the world around us- while it exists (unlike in the idealism perspective) MEANS anything until humans have comprehended it and created structures around it.
Does that help at all?