BIOL 2153 Chapter : Ch3
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What is sociology: the study of human society, the structures, the dynamics, and the change over time. How to study society: a successful sociologist makes the familiar strange, a familiar strange is to see society in a 3rd person point of view. Be able to view everything from the outside: paradox: a successful sociologist makes the familiar strange, question everything. "make the familiar strange" or to question habits or customs that seem "natural" to us. "enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. " What is a social institution: are networks of structures in society that work to socialize the groups of people within them, examples, the legal system, the labor market, the educational system, the military, the family. American sociology: early american sociology became prominent at the university of chicago, so the perspective that emerged became known as the "chicago school. "
