SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 1
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What is sociology: sociology is the study of human society. Be able to view everything from the outside. It requires a different way of seeing things. They are constantly changing, they"re not static and it changes the way we look at these things, such as marriage equality. American sociology: early american sociology became prominent at the university of chicago, so the perspective that emerged became known as the chicago school. Chicago thinkers include: charles horton cooley, george herbert mead, w. i. Something such as studying crime can use empirical research. Focused on that gender is something that is socially constructed. : symbolic interactionism, says that we use cues or symbols to understand meaning in our, postmodernism everyday life through the interactions we have we other people. E. g. , someone smiling at you: different ways of thinking about what"s going on. Brings on the idea of social construction that nothing is real, everything is constructed.
