SOCL 2001 Chapter : SOcl Chapter 1
Document Summary
Social rules and conventions are things that just become a part of us. The scientific study of social relationships, social institutions, and society. Social life: encompasses all interpersonal relationships, all groups or collections of persons, and all types of social organizations: sociological perspective. They look from the point of view of patterns in social events and personal experiences. 2 levels of operation: macrosociology: large scale structures and processes. Example: war, unemployment rates, and institutions: microsociology: how individuals behave in social situations. Example: social problems of a veteran, an unemployed worker. Empirical: based on observations or experience rather than preexisting idea. Symbolic interactionism: major sociological perspective stressing interactions between people and the social processes that occur within the individual that are made possible by language and internalized things. Social theory: a systematically interrelated proposition that seeks to explain a process or phenomena: the development of sociology in europe: The industrial revolution birthed sociology as we know it today.
