SOC 1010 Lecture 1: 1.27 Intro to Sociological Perspective
27 Jan 2020
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Sociology is the systematic study of human social relationships and institutions. Often times, the connection between the two. Sociologists are looking for larger patterns of social relationships that exist within society. We are not interested in individual people existing on their own. Effects that institutions have on human relationships. Spectrum: short anonymous contacts to global social processes. Short anonymous contacts - look at people"s personal experiences, interviews with individual people. Global social processes - they don"t really talk to individual people, they tie it to a larger global process (i. e. because of the rise of industrialization ) It connects well with other disciplines since it is such a large phenomenon. Difference between the practical knowledge of sociology that you already have and scientific knowledge is a matter of method. Rigorous methods are used to describe and know the inner-working of things (how a phone works analogy)
