What IS
Sociology?
,Sociology
It is a way of seeing
It is the study of society
◦ It tries to explain the relationships between the individual and
society
It tries to understand contextual lives
, Sociology
Beyond Either/Or ways of thinking
Look for larger social patterns-- how we do participate in the same
structures but experience they differently?
Nature v. Nurture? How about both?
Mapping out social patterns---social structures
Sociology?
,Sociology
It is a way of seeing
It is the study of society
◦ It tries to explain the relationships between the individual and
society
It tries to understand contextual lives
, Sociology
Beyond Either/Or ways of thinking
Look for larger social patterns-- how we do participate in the same
structures but experience they differently?
Nature v. Nurture? How about both?
Mapping out social patterns---social structures
