Sociology: The Study Of Psychodynamic Approach

Sociology is the study of society as a whole. It is the study of a human being social life, groups and societies. The study is emphasizing the contexts and structures that influence a human being behaviors and actions. In other words, looking at our social structure things that exist outside of our control. That is something a sociologist does, it is someone who studies society and social behavior and they do this by examining the cultures, groups, organizations, social institutions, and processes that people develop. They also study how society changes by using different methods to understand society. We are all in a group that lives in a particular territory, in a political authority, we are people who separate ourselves from other groups
and this is because we live in a society. What is special about sociology is that it is a study of an individual but in a social context, a study of structure that informs good behavior. In other words, an idea that a group of people agrees exists which is a social construction. Sociology also involves socialization, getting children to realize social norms, values and to get them to have a sense of themselves.
Sociology is a scientific discipline.
Sociological researchers always formulate new empirical problems and new theoretical approaches. Furthermore, sociology continues to evolve and grow to lead into a significant explanatory strategy. What also makes sociology scientific disciple is that it falls on something called the scientific method. Social researchers analyze multiple aspects of a social problem in different point of views and they’re more likely to. They have eight stages of the sociological research. The first step is finding the evidence for your research problem and define the research problem. Afterwards, you select a topic to make the research on. When you choose a topic you also have to check and see if any other previous studies if they’re similar to your own just to make sure you aren’t going to prove something that was already proven before. After the research process, you have to formulate a hypothesis to find a relationship between your variables. They are so many methods of researching, such like observation research, experimental research, study research, survey research, correlational research. When choosing an experimental study you have to identify which variable is the cause of another. For example the more sleep you get the more energetic you’ll be. In an experimental study, one or more variable is being controlled by the researcher. A variable that is being controlled is called an “Independent variable.” When you’re doing you experiment you have to make sure to take all your results and record them in a table or graph. When you have recorded your results you may draw conclusions and share your research findings and explain how it can help anyone in the
future.
Something interesting that we learned in class was the meaning of “Sociological Imagination.” Sociological imagination means looking past the individual. For example. The article by Lisa J. McIntyre is about Hernando’s Washington case. Hernando Washington was arrested and charged with robbery, rape, and murder. The main argument of this article is figuring out why did Hernando believed that doing such a crime was okay with him? In this case, we had to think about the social imagination, that the individual becomes themselves from the environment therefrom. Understanding an individual through their social structure and social context and how it creates who we are. We’re products of our environment, this is the most fundamental concept because we have to think as sociologists. We look past the individual, how does this thing called society create an individual. In the end, sociology is different from any other topics because it is more than researching a particular society, it about understanding the people who are in that society and how we are in this world.