Intro to Sociology

a particular point of view

• Theory

• Perspective

• Blindspot

• Law

the scientific study of social structure

• Psychology

• Psychiatry

• Biology

• Sociology

The patterned interaction of people in social relationships

• social structure

• social networks

• social media

• social force

these range in size from a family to an entire society

• social network

• acquaintances

• groups

• friends

this occurs because members have been taught to value the group’s ways

• obligations

• conformity

• responsibilities

• awkwardness

the ability of the individual to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in society

• sociological imagination

• sociological theory

• sociological abstracts

• sociological relationships

considered the father of sociology

• Karl Marx

• Herbert Spencer

• Emile Durkheim

• Auguste Comte

the study of social stability and order

• social dynamics

• social structure

• social statics

• social force

the study of social change

• social dynamics

• social structure

• social statics

• social force

believed in a societal survival of the fittest

• social folkism

• social darwinism

• social mores

• social specifics