SOCL 2001 Chapter : Essentials Of Sociology
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The sociological perspective: examines human behavior within the broader social context, society individuals, social location - group memberships. Blue or pink: back in the 1800s in england and europe it was the opposite, pink- strength, power, blue- calm, virgin mary. Mills and social context: every society has a history, everyone has a biography, external influences thoughts and motivations. Social context example (for a 1st generation indian-american): languages: hindi and english, religion: hinduism, diet: no beef, weekly fasts, relationships: traditional indian man. Origins of sociology: traditions vs. science: superstitions, myths, and star alignments explained social life, scientific method (mid-1800s) in social science; because tradition no longer provided satisfactory answers to social issues, industrial revolution- urbanization of poor quality life. Founders of sociology: comte (founder, study and reform society, positivism- apply scientific method to social word, spencer (2nd founder, opposed social reform, survival of the fittest societies evolve, barbarian civilized, neither of them conducted scientific research!
