scope of sociology and comparison with other social sciences

Question 1

Mention the timelines of various phases of sociology

Answer 1

1838 -1880 humanistic, Inductive, macro units
1880 -1940 division of the school of thought
1940 -1990 blending Micro and macro
After 1990

Question 2

IN formal school express the ideas of Vierkandt Fernand Tonnies.

Answer 2

Vierkandt: society = mental + social relationship

Fernand Tonnies = Gesellschaft ( association ) and Gemeinschaft ( community ) forms the basis for intimate relations in the society

Question 3

IN synthetic school, express the ideas of Sorokin, Karl Manheim, Ginsberg.

Answer 3

Sorokin Broadly divided sociology into general and specific sociology.
Karl Manheim divided sociology into systematic, general and historical sociology.
Ginsberg: studied different social relationships, parts of social life, condition for social change, and sociology principles.

Question 4

explain Double Hermeneutics

Answer 4

Every concept has two-way relation. Given by Anthony Giddens

Question 5

building of sociological imagination is a chain process

Answer 5

CW Mills

Question 6

express ideas of Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Alan Bryman and Jean Baudrillard

Answer 6

Jacques Derrida - postmodernist - deconstruction can help in better understanding. Language can never represent true objective reality.
Alan Bryman: sociology is a multi-disciplinary subject and purposive research has expanded its scope.
Jean Baudrillard: society is dominated by mass media
Michael Foucault: post-structuralism, increasing surveillance believed in discourse analysis.

Question 7

Francois Simiand

Answer 7

principles of the economy need to be verified sociologically.

Question 8

Sumner

Answer 8

studied folkways ( borrowed from Anthro)

Question 9

William Whyte

Answer 9

indulged in ethnographic research

Question 10

Gunnar Myrdal

Answer 10

Chaos cannot be organised into cosmos, we need viewpoints

Question 11

Giam Battista

Answer 11

Philosophy of History helps in separating society from politics

Question 12

Karl Manheim

Answer 12

Ideas of Sociology of knowledge had direct contributions to epistemological questions and thus to philosophy

Question 13

Alfred Vierkandt ( philosophy and sociology)

Answer 13

sociological knowledge filled with facts only philosophical base provides it productivity.

Question 14

(psychology and sociology )

Sigmund Freud

Answer 14

sociology is an extension of social psychology

Question 15

(psychology and sociology )

Cooley

Answer 15

Looking glass self

Question 16

(psychology and sociology )

JS mills

Answer 16

All the laws are derived from the laws of mind

Question 17

Gerth Mills

Answer 17

Concepts like the role are where the two disciplines meet

Question 18

Ginsberg ( psychology and socio)

Answer 18

sociological generalisations can be made using psychological laws

Question 19

History and socio
GE Howard
EH Farr
Radcliff Brown

Answer 19

history is past socio and socio is present history
The more sociological history becomes and the more historical sociology becomes, the better it is
Sociology is nomothetic and history is idiographic

Question 20

Common sense and sociology
Anthony Giddens 
Hegel 
Moore and Reed 
phenomenologists ( Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann, Peter Berger )
Gramsci express the role of common sense

Answer 20

sociology becomes a part of common sense
All philosophies generate from day to day consciousness.
Sociology and Common sense both expand man’s knowledge of the truth
sociological knowledge is no superior to common sense as nothing is the gospel
helps in the establishment of soft power