sociology Flashcards

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What is sociology

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sociology is the study of human behavior in a social setting. it also analyses social problems and how it affects us.
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and social causes and consequences.

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What is the importance of sociology

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Aids in understanding diversity
Expands job opportunities
Helps develop critical thinking
Sociology makes the scientific study of the society
Social activism

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Aids in understanding diversity

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Sociology teaches compassion and understanding through theories like symbolic interactions which understand meanings, values, and beliefs as attributes of unique cultures.

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Expands Job opportunities

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Students with a bachelor’s degree in sociology are able to acquire jobs as social worker, case workers, etc. This is because they have a better understanding of the social world.

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Helps develop critical thinking

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People describe the sociological imagination as a hyperawareness between one’s personal experience and society as a whole.

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Sociology makes the scientific study of the society

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Sociology enables people to learn and comprehend scientific methods for studying society. This means society can be properly broken down, studied, and analyzed.

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Social activism

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the practice of working toward the reform of institutions, behaviors, relations, and expectations of society. To achieve their particular goal in society.

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5 Sociologists

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Auguste Comte- founder of positivism (1798-1857)
Karl Marx- German political economist (1818-1883)
Emile Durkheim-known as the father of sociology. (1858-1917)
Harriet Martineau-British writer and political activist(1802-1876)
Patricia Hill Collins- Us sociologist born in 1948.

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