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• The Basics
• of
• Sociology

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What is Sociology?

• We all have an individual view of the world based
  on our OWN experiences.

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• Sociology goes beyond the individual view
• COLLECTIVE VIEW of the world a collective view
  of society.

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What The Collective View Does For Us

• Gives us a sociological perspective to better
  understand the world and society we live in.

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• It stresses the social contexts in which people
  are engaged, which influence their lives by where
  in history and location people are.

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What Provides The Order and Routine to Our Lives?

• Society, a system of patterned interactions among
  organized groups of people.

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Defining Sociology

• The scientific study of human society and social
  behavior.
• Produces knowledge about human behavior that is
  acquired through interaction with others.

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• Four factors in defining sociology
• scientific study
• human nature
• society
• social

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Definition of Sociology

• The scientific study of human societies and human
  behavior in the groups that make up a society.

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Two Basic Roles of Sociology

• Provides the tools and mechanism through which
  social phenomena can be investigated.

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• Provides several perspectives in which social
  behavior can be explained.

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What is meant by a Sociological Perspective?

• An approach to social phenomena that takes into
  consideration
• the group context of individual behaviors,

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• patterned social interaction,
• the impact of social structures.

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Two Questions

• All human behavior is social in some respect
  that is, human behavior is influenced by other
  people.
• Two questions arise out of this, with one leading
  to the other.

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• Why do people behave the way they do?
• People behave the way they do because of the
  social situations in which they find themselves.

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• Since peoples behavior is partly affected by
  their social situation,
• Why are their social situations the way they are?

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Nature of Social Reality

• A whole greater than the sum of its parts.
• Exists independently of the people belonging to
  it.
• Society has its own reality.

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Sociologys Classical Theorys

• Functionalism
• Conflict
• Symbolic Interaction

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Functionalism

• Society is a relatively, persistent, stable
  complex whole, composed of interrelated parts
  that are interdependent.

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• It is the interdependence and integration of
  parts that produces the stability and maintenance
  of society.

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Conflict Theory

• Emphasis on the dominance of one social group
  over another with manipulation of social order,
  creating class struggle.

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• Groups in society have divergent interests, with
  a limited amount of resources that creates
  conflict among those groups.

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Symbolic Interaction

• Views symbols that we attach meaning to as the
  basis of our social life
• B/c of our ability to think, we can communicate
  with symbols that have shared meaning.

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Culture

• A way of life for a group of people
• The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors,
  and technologies passed from one generation to
  the next.

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Cont

• It links us to the past, present, and future.
• An on-going, dynamic creation of human beings.

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• Culture is like a blueprint
• Culture is learned

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Culture

• All the modes of thought, behavior, and
  production that are handed down from one
  generation to the next by means of communicative
  interaction