Sep 11, 2024
Sociology: group of ppl who share culture and territory.
Sociological perspective: stresses the social contexts in which ppl live. Examines how these contexts influence peopleās lives. (Location, race, gender, income, education, jobs)
Natural science: intellectual and academic disciplines designed to explain and predict events in natural environments. (Geology-mineralogy, biology-zoology, botany, chemistry- organic/inorganic branches, and physics-biophysics and quantum mechanics)
Anthropology: traditionally focuses on tribal people. To understand culture.
Economics: concentrated on a single social institution. (Production, distribution and consumption of material goods and devices)
Political science: focuses on a government and politics. How governments are formed, operates and related to other institutions.
Psychology: focuses on the processes that occur within an individual. Intellectual, emotions, perception, memory, sleep and dreams. How personalities are formed and caused mental illnesses.
Sociology: study of culture
1st upheaval of Industrial Revolution. Agriculture gave way to factory production.
2nd event: political revolution. American and French tradition had ruled but now new social orders or ideas were preferred.
3rd event: imperialism (empire building) : Europeans conquered many countries and native people were exposed to different ways of life.
Karl Marx: (third modern thinker) - believed in 2 social classes and were natural enemies. Bourgeois: capitalists those who owed means of production, money, land, factories or machines.)
Emile Durkheim: social integration is vital in social life. Concept to suicide? Also part of history and economics.
Herbert Spenser: second founder of sociology. Stated sociology āsurvival of the fittestā societies evolve with time.
Basic sociology: ( sociologists) - 1. constructing theory as testing hypothesis. 2. Research on basic social life, on how groups affect people.