SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Media, Auguste Comte, 90Th United States Congress
9 May 2016
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Sociology : is an attempt to understand how membership in one"s social group affects individual behaviour. Sociology relies upon paradigm - to investigate society: theory, data, analysis. Sociology is the study of the powerful social forces that influence social relations and personal lives. Sociology emerged at the time of industrial revolution, an era of massive social transformations accompanied by new social problems. Sociology is the systematic study of human action in. Hess,, markson and stein (1990)- definition of sociology is: the systematic study of human behaviour, the group to which one belongs, and the societies that human beings create, and within which their lives unfold. He or she is an academic who studies human society from a scientific point of view. 3. paradigms (functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, post modernism/ feminism ) Sociology is: concerned the individual admit human society, scientific- hypothesis, systematic-rigorous methodology, informed by - key theories/theorists.
