Assignment 1 Sociology

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Chp. 1 – What Is Sociology?

Sociology

  • What is Sociology?
  • Study of human behavior in groups
  • Part of the Social Sciences

Five Major Social Sciences

  • Sociology/Anthropology
  • Psychology
  • History
  • Political Science
  • Economics

  • Anthropology –

study of different cultures

  • History –

study of past behavior and activities

  • Political Science –

study of representative arrangements to meet our basic needs (i.e., governments)

  • Economics -

study of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

Sociology, Psychology &
Social Work

  • Sociology – study of human

behavior in groups; theoretical science

  • Psychology – study of individual behavior; theoretical and applied science
  • Social work – helping profession involved in the study of individual, group and family behavior; theoretical and applied science, systems oriented

Who Named Sociology

  • Auguste Comte (1798-1857) saw Sociology as the last and greatest of all sciences, one that would include all other sciences, and which would integrate and relate their findings into a cohesive whole.

Back to Definition of Sociology

  • Study of human behavior in groups
  • What do we mean by the term ‘groups?’
  • 2+ people socially interacting, and…
  • Demographic variables

Demographic Variables

  • Individual trait you possess that places you into a group or social category
  • 3 major demographic variables most looked at by sociologists:
  • Race/ethnicity
  • Social class
  • Gender

The Sociological Perspective

  • How sociology does what it does
  • Uses the Sociological Perspective
  • Fresh, unique look at the world
  • Non-biased look

Level 1 & Level 2

  • Gives us two levels of understanding
  • Level 1 – Your own perspective/version of the world
  • Level 2 – Another perspective
  • Time and space/historical

perspective

Example of Level 2

  • 1492 – America ‘discovered’
  • 1865 – Slavery ‘ended’
  • 1964 – Civil Rights Act
  • 2021 – Present Day
  • 373 years of slavery + 99 years
  • of legal segregation = 472 years
  • 2021-1964= only 57 years without

slavery and legal segregation

Uses of Sociology

  • Understand
  • Improve/prevent
  • Predict