SYG-1000 Study Guide - Social Animal

• School: FSU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SYG-1000
• Professor: Different Professorforeach Unit

Document Summary

Plato"s six basic assumptions of society are: man is an organism, organisms tend toward survival, man survives in groups, man is a social animal, man lives in an ordered society, the order of society is notable. Humans have always thought about there lives and conditions of existence. These thoughts gave birth to religion, philosophy, ideology etc. This eventually led to the sociology as a discipline concerned with understanding human behavior, interaction, and organization. Sociology didn"t just arise as an extension of what people do but rather the rebirth in europe after centuries of stagnation and misery. Life at that time wasn"t so stagnate after all. New inventions and ideas were accumulating, new commerce were emerging, new forms and experiments in political organizations, and new religious ideas were making it"s way to the dominant churches. Once a political threshold was reached human logic advanced creating a systematic thought about the universe.