SOSC 1375 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide -
20 Nov 2018
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Sociology thinkers and theories (durkheim and more what is sociology) Is the systematic and scientific study of human social life. Sociologists study people as they form groups and interact with one another. The groups they study may be small, such as married couples, or large, such as a subculture of suburban teenagers. Sociology places special emphasis on studying societies, both as individual entities and as elements of a global perspective. Social scie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374) people"s relatio(cid:374)ships a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)other. O(cid:272)iology, (cid:449)ith its emphasis on social life, falls into this category. A multidisciplinary field, sociology draws from a variety of other social sciences, including anthropology, political science, psychology, and economics. Anthropology concerns individual cultures in a society, rather than the society as a whole. Traditionally, it fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e ter(cid:373)ed (cid:862)pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:272)ultures, su(cid:272)h as the ya(cid:374)o(cid:373)a(cid:373)o people of the outh. American jungle, who live much the same way they did hundreds of years ago.
