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What is Sociology?

--the scientific study of human behavior

WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?

SOCIOLOGY is the scientific study of human behavior

• ***THINK***

• ACT

• TALK

• FUNCTION

• COMMUNICATION

• LIVE

• SEE

Through which lens do you see the world..................

What is Social Imagination?

• The sociological imagination is the concept of being able to "think ourselves away" from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew

• Charles Wright Mills defines the ‘sociological imagination’ as "the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society."

Components of Sociology

• I. Organization of Social Life

• Culture

• Socialization

• Social structure

• Societal development

• Groups

• Deviance

• II.Conditions of Human Equality

• Social stratification

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Age

• Gender

• Social Mobility

• III. Pivotal Social Institutions

• Family

• Religion

• Education

• Government

• Economy