What is Sociology?

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Introduction to Sociology

What is Sociology?

What is Sociology?

A way of thinking
It involves a scientific means of attempting to understand the ?social?.
Auguste Comte
Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
A time of upheaval

The French Revolution 1789.
The Economic Revolution
The Political Revolution
The Intellectual Revolution
Four Fundamental Questions

What is it that gives social life a sense of order a stability?
What are the sources of social change and development?
What is the relationship between social life and individual behaviour?
What are the sources of power, authority and inequality in societies?
Why study sociology?

Understand ourselves.
How we are interconnected to others and to the society.
Sociological imagination.
Thinking Like a Sociologist

Study the passage by C.Wright Mills.
Reading for sociology is not like reading the newspaper.
It is slow.
It involves the use of a dictionary of sociology.
Get in to groups and read together.
If you do not understand ask...
Thinking ourselves away

Symbolic value
Drug
social and economic relationship
Past and economic developments
Life style choices
Socialize the action of ...

A man cleaning his car on a Sunday morning
A woman jogging in the park
A person in a suit queuing for a bus to work.
A young boy eating in McDonalds.
Thinking ourselves away...

Why is it so difficult?
?Unintended consequences?
Give me as a group
1. A short definition of ?sociology?.

2. A short definition of the ?sociological imagination?

Sociological research

Provides us with useful factual information about the social world.
Facts do not speak for themselves.
Sociology at Stansfield

Compulsory units.
Four terms
Weekly lectures
Weekly tutorials
Diploma strudents will produce 6 written assignments - usually in class
2 mock examinations. Dec/ March.
Syllabus

Basic Concepts and Research Methods
Social Theory of the Classical Sociologists.
The Family
Bureaucracy

Book to purchase

A Sociology Dictionary
Collins

Oxford

Anthony Giddens, sociology, 4th Edition . Polity Press, England
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