SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1
• Professor: Chambers

Document Summary

A social science is a discipline or field of research meant to study human behavior. In social science, researchers collect information in various ways (interviews, statistics, experiments) to try and understand why people behave the way they do. Focus: relationships among humans and groups living together in societies. Focus: the behavior and thought processes of the individual, and the way an individual acts/reacts to other humans and society. The study of the human mind and behavior. Focuses on how individuals think and how those thoughts affect action. Example: are the children born to parents with mental disorders more likely to develop mental disorders in adulthood . Focus: the physical and cultural development of humans and their societies. The study of human behavior within different cultures. Looks into historical evidence to understand and explain patterns of behavior within a culture. Deals with the origins of the concepts of man/woman by studying the development of customs.