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Introduction To Sociology
WELCOME!
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What is Sociology?
Doob - ...is the scientific study of human behavior in groups and of the socialforces that influence that behavior. ...the scientific study of human society and social behavior.Sociology - A systematic and objective study of society and social behavior.
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What do we mean by systematic?
...use of science, scientific method.Empirical, rather than pre-science method. How do we know? The ways of establishing facts.
Pre-Science Method:AuthorityIntuitionLogic
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Positivism-
...the use of scientific method and empirical analysis to understand human behavior.
What is empiricism?
Empirical Analysis- the use of human senses or “sense perception.” Observation- use of your senses to observe the world.
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Objective-
...unbiased, no preconceived notions.
...do you have any preconceived notions about people? Based on what?
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Basic Postulates of Science
Definite Order of Recurrent EventsKnowledge is Superior to IgnoranceCommunication is Based on Sense PerceptionThere are Cause and Effect
Relationships Within the Physical and Social OrderScientist/Observer Has the Capacity to Conceptually Relate and Assign Meaning
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Science Is:
TheoreticalEmpiricalLogicalCumulativeSubject to Reliable Checking
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Early Sociologist
Henri de Saint-SimonAuguste ComteHerbert SpencerKarl MarxEmile DurkheimMax Weber
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Society & Institutions
Society-“…the interaction people who share a culture.”“… a comprehensive social grouping that includes all the social institutions required to meet basic human needs.
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Social Institutions
Social Institution –“…a process or association that is highly organized, systematized and stable.”“…a more or less stable structure of statuses and roles devoted to meeting the basic needs of people in a society.”
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Social Institutions
Institutions meeting basic human needs-PoliticalEducationReligion EconomicsFamily
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Theoretical Perspectives
Functionalism-…theory stressing the contributions made by social or cultural phenomena to the system of which they are a part.(an overriding concern with the conditions of equilibrium, stability and maximum efficiency.)
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Theoretical Perspectives -Cont’d
Conflict Theory-…a theoretical perspective that emphasizes conflict, contradiction, inequality, and injustice as permanent aspects of society and a major source of social change.