Ch : 1 Key Points Flashcards
Behaviors affected by a social world that imposes itself on us whether or not we are aware of it. However, although society mean he’s here, it must also be noted that societies are created an altered by humans.
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In order to survive, people have to organize themselves into some kind of structure, and they have to construct rules of behavior. Once they come into being, the structures can exist for a long period time. One key goal of sociology, then, is to systematically study and analyze the various elements that constitute a society’s structure and the relationships among these elements.
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Society can be understood both as an ordered system, and of identifiable cultural components and social institutions, and as an entity that is constantly changing.
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The concept of power is central to understanding how societies work. All of us are affected by both proximal and distal relations of power. However, although just relations of power may have more serious and negative consequence for lives, you’re very hard for us to see and oppose.
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Other humans act in patterned ways that can be studied by social scientists, there is always room for human agency.
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Society can be at dream force on individual, but it can also be a liberating force. Commonly shared rules of social world allows us to functionality lives because assuming that most people will act as they should reduces our level of insecurity and allows us to get on with our lives.
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The route of modern sociology lie in 19th-century Europe underling to growth of science in the preceding few centuries. From outset, there is a tension sociology about the ultimate uses social analysis.
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All knowledge has a bias embedded in it, human understanding of its effect by where we sit in the social University nonetheless, sociology must satisfy rigors of scientific investigations by proving concrete evidence to support or refute theoretical constructs.
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Dialectics can help us make sense of the world by offering a basic set of tools we can use and social analysis.
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Two major Proches and social sciences are the orders series and the change series. The former tenants support the status quo while the latter try to alter it.
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Although sociology is distinct discipline, the boundaries between the various areas within humanities and social sciences are not clear cut.
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Sociology is the systematic study of human society and the behavior of people in society. Analyzing our social world can sometimes be a difficult task because students not only have strong feelings about many topics but often feel they’re already well-informed about them.
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