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is the study of the development, structure, and functioning of the society, and the interaction of its human community within its society
Sociology
It focuses on the ubiquity (or the everywhere-ness) of
Sex and Gender
Religion
Class and Race
Ethnicity etc
Involves the following aspects
Social (i.e. actions and interactions)
Cultural (i.e. practices and traditions)
Political (i.e. power relations and leadership)
The Sociological Problem
The feeling of being “trapped”
The different values of society
(Institutional Contradictions)
Success and failure of individual men
Self-Consciousness)
Personal troubles vs. Public issues
Structural Changes
. Indifference vs Anxiety
(Contradictions of Structures)
Sociological Perspective
. Seeing the general in particular
b. Seeing the strange in the familiar
c. Human behavior is not individualistic, rather social
d. Sociological perspective has a global perspective
Main Sociological Paradigms
Main Sociological Paradigms
. Structural Functionalism
- deviance and functions of the society
Conflict Paradigm
- rich vs poor, good vs bad
Symbolic Interactionism
- thought, language, meaning
Use of scientific investigation or method
Sociological Inquiry
Person with professional knowledge and skill in studying the facts of society
Sociologist
C. Wright Mills –
Sociological Imagination
Gerhard Lenski
– Ecological-Evolution Theory
Emile Durkheim
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
Robert Merton
Structural Functionalism
Talcott Parsons
Social System Paradigms
Karl Marx
– Conflict Theory
W.E.B. Du Bois
Racial Struggle and Discrimination
George Mead
Symbolic Interactionism
Harold Garfinkel
Ethnomethodology