INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY August 3‚ 11 Paul Arjean Ramos TOPIC NO. 1 EXPLAIN HOW YOU DEVELOPED AN APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY AND DISCUSS THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY‚ AS THEY RELATE TO YOUR CULTURE AND STYLE OF LIVING. INTRODUCTION Well sociology for me at first sounded interesting because I have not studied sociology before and it is a new thing for me. The thing I’m most interested in sociology is the study of different cultures relating to my own
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Running Head: CLASSIC THEORIES OF SOCIOLOGY 1 CLASSIC THEORIES OF SOCIOLOGY Abstract The purpose of this essay is to discuss the three basic theories of sociology. The three basic theories of sociology are functional‚ conflict‚ and symbolic interactionism. These theories are studied on the micro or macro level. The micro level is the sum of interactions between people and groups. The micro level analysis is based on small groups and individuals versus the macro level which is viewed
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Pioneers of Sociology * Karl Marx He said that the working class will defeat the ownership class‚ and result in a utopia where government will wither away to nothing and the principle of economics will be based on "For each according to his needs‚ and from each according to his ability." His contribution to thinking in sociology is mainly in a perspective called "Conflict Theory" in which social organisation and change is based upon conflicts built into society. Many people see this as having
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EVOLUTION OF SOCIOLOGY Soculita Classical Period - Classical Political Thinkers: Plato‚ Niccolo Machiavelli‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ Polybius‚ Thomas Hobbes and Giambattista Vico * according to them‚ political issues are only parts of the specific concerns of the society - attempts were made to find the connections of political issues with social and other physical factors * Baron de Montesquieu postulated that climate‚ geographic‚ economic and
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Importance of Sociology____________________________________________________________________ Sociology makes a scientific study of society: Prior to the emergence of sociology the study of society was carried on in an unscientific manner and society had never been the central concern of any science. It is through the study of sociology that the truly scientific study of the society has been possible. Sociology because of its bearing upon many of the problems of the present world has assumed such a great
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Is sociology a science? Sociology is the study of human social behaviour. It is in face a science‚ better said a social science which overlooks a variety of aspects affecting human social behaviour such as social stratification‚ social class‚ social mobility‚ religion‚ secularization‚ law‚ sexuality and deviance. The roots of sociology are connected with Greek philosophers such as Plato and are connected with surveying and collecting data based on a sample group. Sociologists were and are interested
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Master Harold and the Boys Play Master Harold and the Boys‚ a play written by famous playwright Althol Fugard‚ shares the story of a seventeen year old white boy‚ Hally‚ who spends time with two African- American servants‚ Sam and Willie. While the majority of the play is a conversation between the three inside a tea room‚ Fugard does a brilliant job of exposing the struggles that is dealt with at the time. The context of Master Harold and the Boys is deep and meaningful‚ especially since
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What is Sociology? To define what sociology is‚ it may be easier to look at what sociology is not. Sociology is not social work or social policy‚ though it is used in both professions‚ and both are affected by it. It is not about making the world a better place‚ though its findings can be used to do that. Sociology is the academic study of the ways in which individuals and groups live in societies. It raises fundamental questions about how people shape society by the way they live and how it affects
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Instructor: Course: Date: Modernity and Classical Social Theory Modernity is one phrase that is complex to define. This is because no precise definition of modernity that is globally accepted has been decided upon. This is inclusive of the sociology field that has seen so many theories brought about to define modernity. However‚ we can have a general definition defining modernity as a post-middle age era that is discernible with a drastic change from the pre-modern concept of agrarianism to
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What is sociology? We can start by saying that sociology is the systematic study of human society. Sociology should be more than you find in a good documentary on a social issue. It is certainly more than listings of facts and figures about society. Instead it becomes a form of consciousness a way of thinking‚ a critical way of seeing the social. Seeing the general in the particular. In his short book ‘Invitation to Sociology’(1963) characterized the sociological perspective as seeing the general
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