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What is Sociology?
Nature of Sociology
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Def: The social science that is studies
societies, social groups and the
relationships between people.
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Focus of Sociology
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Population Patterns
Social Behavior
Social Institutions
Social Change
Cultural Influences
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Humanistic vs Scientific…or both?
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Fields of Sociology
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Criminology
Demography
Educational Sociology
Human Ecology
Intellectual Sociology
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Legal Sociology
Political Sociology
Sociolinguistics
Sociometry
Urban Sociology
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Goals of Sociology
1. Describe the structure, function, pattern, and
process of human social behavior.
2. Explain the causes and effects of human social
behavior.
3. Predict the development of human social
behavior.
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Relevancy of Sociology
1. Self-understanding of one’s social relationships.
2. Development of an understanding of the social
relationships of others.
3. Improvement of the conditions of human social
behavior.
Review Questions
1. Sociology is best defined as the scientific
study of
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Social problems.
Human personality.
Social interaction.
Human development.
Attitudes and values.
2. What should be is to the __ approach.
A. Scientific
B. Humanistic
3. What is to the ___ approach.
A. Scientific
B. Humanistic
4. You want to research the meaning and
pattern of gang symbols. What field of
sociology should you study in?
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B.
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Criminology
Demography
Sociolinguistics
Urban Sociology
ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY
Auguste Comte
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• 1838
• 1st to term the word sociology as a field of study
• Promotes the scientific study
Adolphe Quetelet
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• 1869
• Applies mathematical statistics
Herbert Spencer
• 1877
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• Society follows a natural evolution toward
something better
Emile Durkheim
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• 1897
• 1st statistical analysis of suicide
Max Weber
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• 1904
• Emphasized historical analysis of capitalism
Lester Ward
• 1904
• American Sociological Association to
promote basic and applied sociology.
• Social probs: crime, drug addiction,
prostitution, juvenile deliquency
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Trends of Sociology
1. Empirical Sociology
2. Sociological Specialization
3. Applied Sociology