01:920:101 Lecture 1: Lecture 1- Introduction: What is Sociology

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:101
• Professor: J Dowd

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What is sociology: the study of what people do when they get together (dyad- 2 people together, triad- 3 people together, systemic study of social behavior and human groups. This is more of a psychological question because it is about him and not about society. This is not a sociological question because worse is a vague word. Correlation- when two things vary together (correlation does not imply causation). But, we can ask sociological questions relating to cancer: for example- why do some areas have high cancer rates? (this would be a sociological question because it is related to society. Within a group of people, we usually look for nature (ex- genes of your parents). But when looking at a whole group we look at nurture (ex- living condition). For example- when talking about what influences height. If we are talking about one specific perso(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:373)ight look to their pare(cid:374)t"s ge(cid:374)es.