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Sociology

1. Module 4: Sociology and the study of Society Here is where your presentation begins

2. Objectives At the end of this module, I can: Identify the subjects of inquiry and goals of sociology. Describe society as a complex whole Identify aspects of culture and society. Recognize the value of sociology for the 21 st century.

3. Sociology is another branch of social Sciences, this discipline is the “scientific study of society”. Sociology was coined by August Comte in 1830 to refer to a scientific inquiey that covers human social activities In 1595, C. Wright Mills coined the “Sociological imagination” Sociological Perspective

4. Big Idea Sociology is a cognitive tool to understand society, institutions, and th e i r impact on human behavior

5. Society Can be defined as a product of human interactions as humans subscribe to the rules of their culture. It is an organization that caters to human’s need for belongingness is a group.

6. Comparison of the Theories on Society Sociologist Perspective on Society August Comte Society as a social organism possessing a harmony of structure and function. Emile Durkheim Society as a reality in its own right. Collective consciousness is of key importance to society, which cannot survive without. Talcott Parson Society is a total complex of human relationship in so far as they grow of the action in terms of means-end relationship George Herbert Mead Society is an exchange of gesture that involves the use of symbols

7. Sociologist Perspective on Society Morris Ginsberg Society as a collection of individuals united by certain relations or mode of behavior that marks individuals off from others who do not enter into this relations. George Douglas Cole Society as a complex of organized association and institution with a community Robert MacIver and Charles Page Society is a total complex of human relationship in so far as they grow of the action in terms of means-end relationship

8. Within the framework of society is a process called social interaction. This is a compilation of ways and means by which humans interact with each other within the confines of society. Social Interaction

9. Social Organization I s a basic unit of an organization. It involves at least two individuals who are in onstant interaction based on t heir sattuses and role Group A re the building blocks of society, as it is through these that the norms are produced from the consistent exchanges of individuals and groups. Institutions

10. Social Organization Subdisciplines of Sociology Social Psychology Social Ch an ge Human Ecology Demography Applied Sociology

11. The studies that involve social structures such as institutions, social groups, social stratification, social mobility, and ethnic groups. Social Organization

12. The study of the impact of group life to a person’s nature and personality. Social Psychology

13. Branch of sociology that inquires on the shift in social and cultural interactions and the interruption of its process through delinquency, deviance and conflicts. Social Change

14. Pursues studies that relate human behavior to existing social institution Human Ecology

15. Inquires on the interrelationship between population characteristics and dynamics with that political, economic, and social system. Demography

16. Uses sociological research and methods to solve contemporary problem Applied Sociology