sociology Flashcards
What is sociology
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.
What is the importance of sociology
Aids in understanding diversity
Expands job opportunities
Helps develop critical thinking
Sociology makes the scientific study of the society
Social activism
Aids in understanding diversity
Sociology teaches compassion and understanding through theories like symbolic interactions which understand meanings, values, and beliefs as attributes of unique cultures.
Expands Job opportunities
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.
Helps develop critical thinking
People describe the sociological imagination as a hyperawareness between one’s personal experience and society as a whole.
Sociology makes the scientific study of the society
Sociology enables people to learn and comprehend scientific methods for studying society. This means society can be properly broken down, studied, and analyzed.
Social activism
the practice of working toward the reform of institutions, behaviors, relations, and expectations of society. To achieve their particular goal in society.
5 Sociologists
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.