Sociology What is sociology Study of human social

Sociology

What is sociology Study of human social behavior Study of the group rather than the individual perspective (point of view)

Finish the Following Sentences 1. Someone who can’t find a job is ______. 2. Homelessness is the result of_______. 3. Immigrants come here because of______. 4. People are violent because____. 5. Young people get in more accidents because _____.

Examples A young man joins a gang. A woman divorces her husband. A teen commits suicide. Draw a map on the fastest way to the student parking lot.

Patterns Social Structure – the patterned interaction of people in social relationships People behave differently in a group than they would as individuals. Behavior in a group can not be predicted by personal characteristics Emile Durkheim

Group Conformity Family Friends Peer Work State City Nation Race Gender We conform to the various groups in our lives. Members of a group will conform even if personal preferences are not the same.

Sociological Imagination The ability to see the link between society and self. This allows individuals to not be trapped due to their circumstances. Example Large families One child families Couples with no kids

Jobs in Sociology Social Services Publishing Community Work Journalism Corrections Public Relations Business Government Services College Teaching Health Services

Overview of Sociology Topics Intro/ History Research Race and Ethnicity Inequalities Culture Gender and Age Inequalities Socialization Family Social Structure and Society Politics and Economics Groups and Organizations Sport Religion Social Control Population/ Urbanization Social Class Social Change

Will we have any privacy left? 1. The article describes some possible changes in how people will communicate, work, and live in the year 2025. Identify some of the future technology trends and innovations mentioned in the article. 2. Describe the safeguards that will be added to future technology to protect individual privacy. Do you think the methods of keeping records in 2025 will be, as the article states, “far safer and more private than anything we have ever put on paper”? 3. According to the author of the article, how will Americans manage to preserve their privacy despite technology innovations? Do you agree with the author’s suppositions about the American moral character? 4. American citizens still have expectations of privacy in their daily lives. What aspects of privacy do you take for granted today? Do you think these expectations represent a basic honesty in the American character?

Important Sociologists Sociologist Major idea Brief Explanation Class Conflict Struggle between bourgeoisie class (owners) and the proletariat class (workers) Verstehen Understanding social behavior by mentally putting yourself in the place of others. Auguste Comte Positivism Belief that sociology should be base on knowledge of which we can be “positive” or sure Emile Durkheim Mechanical Solidarity Organic Solidarity Societies exist because of broad consesnsus among members of society Karl Marx Max Weber

Theoretical Perspectives Functionalism Conflict Perspective Symbolic Perspective 1. A society is a 1. A society 1. People’s relatively integrated experiences interpretations of whole inconsistency and symbols are based on 2. A society tends to conflict everywhere the meanings they seek relative stability 2. A society is learn from 3. Most aspects of a continually subjected 2. People base their society contribute to to change interaction on their the society’s well 3. A society involves interpretations of being and survival. the constraint and symbols 4. A society rests on the coercion of some 3. Symbols permit consensus of its members by others. people to have members internal conversations. .