SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Sociological Association, Historical Sociology, Rural Sociology
Sociology lecture 2: What is sociology
● Understanding the discipline of sociology through the obesity issue
○ Obesity through the lens of the sociology of culture
○ Ex: the different meanings that groups attach to “obesity” in different societies,
and how they have changed over time
○ Interrogate socially constructed categories like “obesity” to “overweight”
● What is sociology?
○ the systematic(or scientific) study of human society--of social life, social
relationships, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human
behavior
● Fields of sociological study
○ There are many fields within sociology there are 49 sections at the
ASA(American sociology association)
■ comparative -historical sociology
■ Culture
■ Demography
■ Development and globalization
■ Economic sociology
■ Education
■ Environmental sociology
■ Gender and feminist theory
■ Immigration
■ Industrial sociology/work
■ Labor
■ Sociology of law
■ Organizations and institutions
■ Political sociology
■ Poverty
■ Race and ethnicity
■ Religion
■ Rural sociology
■ Sexuality
■ Social movements
■ Social networks
■ Social psychology
■ Social stratification and class analysis
■ Theory
■ Urban sociology
● Comparative- Historical sociology
○ Sociology research and teaching on cross-national variation and the temporal
dimensions of social life
■ Ex; Durkheim’s suicide
○ comparative -historical study of obesity
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Document Summary
Understanding the discipline of sociology through the obesity issue. Obesity through the lens of the sociology of culture. Ex: the different meanings that groups attach to obesity in different societies, and how they have changed over time. Interrogate socially constructed categories like obesity to overweight . What is sociology? the systematic(or scientific) study of human society--of social life, social relationships, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. There are many fields within sociology there are 49 sections at the. Sociology research and teaching on cross-national variation and the temporal dimensions of social life. Examination of cross-national variation rates of obesity as well as how and why rates have changed over time. This area of sociological research is as much if not more about how to think about a problem as it is about a substantive area of research.
