OBJECTIVES

1. Explain what sociology is and its importance to our lives;

2. Write about important social issues using the Sociological Imagination;

3. See the ways in which your own life has been shaped by social institutions.

INTRODUCTIONis the systematic study of the relationship between people and society;

What is Sociology?

Why study Sociology? concerned with how social conditions influence our lives as individuals

Sociological Imagination

to distinguish personal trouble from public issues

to enable to participate in social life and step back and analyze what is going on in social world.

capacity to shift from one perspective to another.

the ability to see how social conditions affect our lives (C. Wright Mills) (ex. Post master)

Social Change

-Is a set of people, groups and organization with their own ways of thinking and acting.

Social Environment

-rise of terrorism-population increase-teenage pregnancy-divorce rate

Levels of Social Reality

Micro level- concerned with the behaviors of the individual andhis/her immediate others- that iswith patterns of interaction among afew people.

Middle level- occur in communitiesor in organizations such as businessor voluntary associations.

Macro level- refers to a whole societies and how they are changing.

Major Sociological Theory

Interactionism- results from repeated interactions among individuals and groups. Rational Choice-maximize gain, minimize pain Symbolic interactionism- how social life is “constructed” through mundane acts of social communication (e.g. The way we dress, talk, walk, gestures)

Functionalism- How society manages to carry out the functions it must perform in order to maintain social order.

Conflict Theory- emphasizes the role of coercion and power in producing social order.

References

Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1959)

Kornblum, William. Sociology in a Changing World. Eight Edition (Transcontinental Printing, Canada. 2006)

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