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 WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?  SOCIETY Group of people living together with shared customs, laws, and organizations in a specific location.  SOCIETY Refers to a group of people who interact in a definable territory and share the same culture.  SOCIETY But i...

 WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?  SOCIETY Group of people living together with shared customs, laws, and organizations in a specific location.  SOCIETY Refers to a group of people who interact in a definable territory and share the same culture.  SOCIETY But in Sociology, Society refers not to a group of people but to the complex pattern of the norms or interaction or relationships that arise among them.  CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIETY 6. Permanent Nature 1. Likeness 7. Society is Abstract 2. Differences 8. Society is Dynamic 3. Inter-dependence 9. Comprehensive 4. Co-operation and Culture Conflict 10. More than Mere 5. Web of Social Collection of Relationship Individuals INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY Man is biologically and psychologically equipped to live in groups, in society, hence became an essential condition for human life to arise and to continue. INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY Man being a social animal has a natural urge to live an associated life with others.  SOCIOLOGY Study of human social interactions, groups, relationships, social development, organizations, processes, and institutions  SOCIOLOGY It systematically analyze different social phenomena such as populations, social groups, gender, religions, race, crime and deviance, social stratification, or social movements  SOCIOLOGY It is the systematic study of society and social interaction. ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY Auguste Comte: Father of Sociology and Positivism  ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY Auguste Comte: Credited with coining the term in 1838.  ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY Auguste Comte: Society should be understood and studied as it was, rather than what it ought to be and was the first to recognize that the path to understanding the world and society was based in science.  LAW OF THREE STAGES Theological Metaphysical Positivist Stage Stage Stage Attribute Attribute Study of nature occurrences in changes and and dynamics of nature and occurrences of society through society to nature and observable data divine, society to a derived from supernatural divinely- experience power and the ordained natural Scientific whims of Gods order of things Method  SOCIAL THINKERS Emile Durkheim Society as an organism Function of Society: regulation of behavior to be a productive member of society  SOCIAL THINKERS Karl Marx Focus: economy in relation to development of society  SOCIAL THINKERS Max Weber Values as main driver of action in society and economy SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Coined by Charles Wright Mills Outlook where individual lives are affected and reflective if larger social context. SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION It enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society  TROUBLES VS. ISSUES Troubles Issue Troubles occur within the Issues have to do with matters character of the individual and that transcend these local within the range of his or her environments of the individual immediate relations with others; and the range of her inner life. they have to do with one's self An issue is a public matter and with those limited areas of social life of which one is directly and personally aware. A trouble is a private matter  Introducing students to the field, Peter Berger wrote, “It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is this—things are not what they seem.” Hence, the sociological perspective urges students to ask the unasked questions about "normal" things to illuminate the underlying social structures and forces at work. METHODS IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Surveys: Responding to a series of questions about behaviors and opinion Experiments: Investigate relationships to test a hypothesis METHODS IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Field research Secondary data and textual analysis: Secondary data do not result from firsthand research collected from primary sources but are drawn from the already- completed work of other researchers. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES Structural Symbolic Conflict Theory Functionalism Interactionism Social interaction Society as Society as an gives meaning competition for organism whose and resources, social parts maintain interpretation to structures, and the order of the social power and society. environment. resistance  MACRO LEVEL OF ANALYSIS Bigger picture or large-scale analysis of social phenomenon  MICRO LEVEL OF ANALYSIS Specific details of interactions  TAKE HOME SUMMATIVE TASK You will need to write a one-page(short bond paper) reflection paper about our discussion in sociology. It should include the following: Your own personal definition of sociology The importance of sociology in our daily lives Arial, 11, justified, 1.5 spacing Submission: September 20, 2024  8 6 4 2 Reflective Thinking Reflection demonstrates a Reflection demonstrates a Reflection demonstrates a Reflection demonstrates conscious and thorough basic and thoughtful limited understanding of little or no understanding of understanding of the understanding of the the subject matter. the subject matter. subject matter. subject matter. Making connections Reflection articulates Reflection articulates Reflection articulates a Reflection does not multiple connections connections between the vague/unclear connection articulate any connection to between the learning learning experience and between the learning other learning or experience and content content from other courses, experience and content experiences. from other courses, past past learnings, life from other courses, past learnings, life experiences, experiences, and/or future learnings, life experiences, and/or future goals. goals. and/or future goals. Analysis Reflection shows an in- Reflection shows an in- Reflection shows an Reflection does not move depth analysis of the depth analysis of the unclear/vague analysis of beyond a description of the learning experience, the learning experience, and the learning experience, learning experience. value of the derived the value of the derived and the value of the derived learning to self and others, learning to self and others. learning to self and others. and the enhancement of the students’ appreciation of the discipline. Conventions Demonstrate control of the Demonstrate control of the Demonstrate limited Demonstrate no control of conventions set by the conventions set by the control of the conventions the conventions set by the teacher with essentially no teacher with occasional set by the teacher teacher exhibiting errors errors exhibiting occasional errors occasional errors that that does not hinder makes comprehension comprehension. difficult.