Introduction to Sociology
Objectives:
What is Sociology?
Explain concepts central to Sociology.
Describe the different levels of analysis in Sociology (Micro Sociology, and Macro Sociology).
Understand how different sociological perceptive has developed.
A community/group of people having common traditions.
The aggregate/collection of people living together in in an ordered community.
A large group of individuals who are associated together.
People who share rules, values, and traditions.
The study of how humans interact in society.
A social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies.
The study of our behaviors as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts.
The power or right to act, speak, or think as you intend. However, within the limits of respect to society and other attributes.
Includes the groups’ shared practices, values, beliefs, norms, attributes, and artifacts.
Sociology is derived from the Latin word (Socious) which means companion. The other half is taken from a Greek word (Logos) which means speech or reason. Together they mean, reasoned speech about companionship.
The sociologists break the study of society down into four separate levels of analysis. Microsociology, Macrosociology, Meso Sociology, and Global Sociology. However, the basic distinction is between micro and macro. Kenneth Walte studied these levels in 1959.
The paradigm used to find the data that is collected through surveys, interviews, and sometimes both based on quantity/perceptives.
Different Sociologist perceptive enables sociologists to view social issues through a variety of useful lenses.
Objectives:
What is Sociology?
Explain concepts central to Sociology.
Describe the different levels of analysis in Sociology (Micro Sociology, and Macro Sociology).
Understand how different sociological perceptive has developed.
A community/group of people having common traditions.
The aggregate/collection of people living together in in an ordered community.
A large group of individuals who are associated together.
People who share rules, values, and traditions.
The study of how humans interact in society.
A social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies.
The study of our behaviors as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts.
The power or right to act, speak, or think as you intend. However, within the limits of respect to society and other attributes.
Includes the groups’ shared practices, values, beliefs, norms, attributes, and artifacts.
Sociology is derived from the Latin word (Socious) which means companion. The other half is taken from a Greek word (Logos) which means speech or reason. Together they mean, reasoned speech about companionship.
The sociologists break the study of society down into four separate levels of analysis. Microsociology, Macrosociology, Meso Sociology, and Global Sociology. However, the basic distinction is between micro and macro. Kenneth Walte studied these levels in 1959.
The paradigm used to find the data that is collected through surveys, interviews, and sometimes both based on quantity/perceptives.
Different Sociologist perceptive enables sociologists to view social issues through a variety of useful lenses.
