SO 202 Lecture : Sheyaa-SOC-notes-2019_1-1
Document Summary
Study of all human social experience (individual/worldwide) Focused on gathering and analyzing empirical evidence to understand the social world. Use empirical evidence to address social problems and provide solutions. Take suicide rates and find preventative methods. Ask questions, collect stats from existing data sets. Explain and understand that one case study, set of data, could be related other case studies and issues. Can allude to the broadness of an issue/subject. A set of fundamental concepts, skills, and topics. Enables sociologists to think differently about the world. Society needs to be interested in this. Sociological concepts are drawn from the cultural context in which they appear. Racial, social dynamics that affect a community.
