SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Critical Race Theory, Ethnography, Management Science
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Sociology is the systematic study of human society and social interaction. From the study of dyads (two-person groups) to entire groups. Each other social science has its own distinct focus: Specific segments of social life and human behaviour. Most other disciplines belong to social sciences, most emerged in 19th century, and modeled after natural sciences. Sociology focuses on a combination. (interested about the pizza, not all the toppings) From the greek philia and sophos (lover of wisdom) Best described as a quest, reflection on meaning of life. (being, reason, knowledge, truth?) Greater concern with internal logic of its reasoning. (when auguste comte created sociology, he wanted to break away from social sciences) Subject matter: behaviour of individual humans (generally under experimental conditions) Focus: process internal to the individual to determine what influences people. The study of individual behaviour in small groups. Psychology is more focused on medical values nowadays.
