SOCY 200 Lecture Notes - North Vietnam, Noh

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCY 200
• Professor: J.Pease

Document Summary

Sociology is the comparative, historical, interdisciplinary study of society and social life. At the societal level study is focused on the components of society and how they are interrelated, how they change, and how they come to shape our collective social existence. At the level of individual biography, study is focused on how the behavior, thoughts, and emotions of individuals are created and modified by the social and cultural conditions in which they live. One perspective uses the categories, classifications, and concepts that are real, meaningful, and appropriate to science. The other perspective uses the categories, classifications, and concepts that are real, meaningful, and appropriate to the participants. Social organization: emphasizes how different events are all the same. External aggression always intensifies the internal solidarity of a social group. Study of what is, not what should be. Group, tribe, family, class, society, community, gang, etc. All aspects of society and social life.