SOCIAL SCIENCE I SOCIOLOGY IN PHILIPPINE SETTING SOCIETY‚ CULTURE WITH FAMILY PLANNING Why Study Sociology 1. To obtain factual information about our society and different aspects of our social life. 2. Enables us to learn the application of scientific information to daily life and problems. 3. Develop the capacity to see through some of the folk‚ traditional and conventional wisdom our of society. 4. Sociology performs its most important function when superstition and misinformation are replaced
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Cognitive Anthropology Tara Robertson and Duke Beasley (Note: authorship is arranged stratigraphically with the most recent author listed first) Basic Premises: Cognitive anthropology is an idealist approach to studying the human condition. The field of cognitive anthropology focuses on the study of the relation between human culture and human thought. In contrast with some earlier anthropological approaches to culture‚ cultures are not regarded as material phenomena‚ but rather cognitive organizations
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Chapter 1 - The Sociological Perspective and Research Process: 1. (4) Sociology is the study of man and society that seeks to determine their general characteristics‚ especially as found in contemporary civilizations. ! A society is a large social group that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. 2. (3-5) Sociologist C. Wright Mills described sociological reasoning as The Sociological Imagination
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I. The Sociological Perspective A. This perspective is important because it provides a unique way of looking at the human experience. It allows us to gain a new and comprehensive vision of day-to-day social life. B. This perspective stresses the broader social context of behaviour by looking at an individual’s social location (employment‚ income‚ education‚ gender‚ age‚ and race) and by considering external influences and personal experiences‚ which are internalized and become part of a person’s
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The sociological views of the three founding fathers; Karl Marx‚ Max Weber‚ and Emile Durkheim all assert that various aspects of our lifestyle are fully a product of the society in which we live. Each theorist views the impact of society and its manifestation of our identity in a different way. All three of these men used the Industrial Revolution and capitalism to shape their theories of social identity‚ especially the identity created by capitalism’s division of labor; the owners of the means
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changes in science and technology opened the minds of people to wonder if there could be a scientific reason for everything we do and that the wider scientific knowledge could give an explanation as to the problems encountered throughout human life. Auguste Comte was born in 1798; he was a philosopher during the French revolution. It is believed that though he did not discover the concept of sociology‚ he made an influence in the area with his work and is said to have inspired work of Karl Marx. Karl Marx
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SOC 101 note CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION The Sociological Perspective Sociology: o The systematic study of human groups and their interactions Sociological perspective: o A view of society based on the dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live Charles Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination Suggests that people who do not‚ or cannot‚ recognize the social origins and character of their problems
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considered to be the founding father of Sociology‚ Auguste Comte was convinced that a science of society was possible and would be capable of reconstructing French society. The major problematic of France in the 19th century was the need to reconstruct French society. Thus‚ the motive of 19th century European Sociology was to develop principles that would guide the reconstruction of France. It is extremely important to recognize that Auguste Comte was motivated by the need to make a contribution to
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Religion is an important part of life for many people. Even people who are not all that religious by nature consider it to be important. The rise of science during the renaissance in Europe created a confrontation between religion‚ science and philosophy which still persists today. Is religion still useful to civilization? In this paper an evaluation of the conflict between religion and science will be discussed. Dictionary.com defines religion as‚ “a set of beliefs concerning the cause‚ nature
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Romanticism is described as an intellectual movement placing a holistic focus on systems rather than individual elements‚ celebrating self-understanding‚ expression of emotion‚ and aesthetics‚ and promoting unity between man and nature. Typically‚ romanticism is considered antithetical to the mechanistic view of the late 18th Century which emphasizes reason‚ determinism‚ and believes a system’s activities are based on its individual parts‚ rather than comprehensively. In the opening chapter‚ Tresch
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