GIVE ME THE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT SOCIOLOGY ?

[Rama sekhar]

[Jim Glynn]

Sociology was founded in the mid-nineteenth century as a "science of society." I prefer to think of it as the study of social interaction. Sociologists utilized constructs (models), theories, and experiments in their studies. Since World War II, sociology has emphasized the use of the scientific method as the basis for conclusions.

Sociologists study groups, culture (borrowing a lot of information from its sister science, anthropology), and socialization (borrowing some information from psychology, but relying more on studies by sociologists and social psychologists).

Within the field of sociology, there is an area of study called demography, which studies various aspects of population: growth or decline, migration, life expectancy, and various rates which determine trends in society. Other sociologists concentrate on urban issues, such as the growth of cities, reasons for rural-urban shifts, and so forth.

Sociology also covers collective behavior: the study of people in crowds, formation of mobs, circumstances surrounding panics, fads and fashions, and similar behavior that emerges when ordinary social controls are not being observed.

Social change is an important part of modern sociology. Sociologists are interested in the causes of change, the effect that change has on various parts of society, and following the trends of change.

Sociologists often specialize in the study of one or more social institutions. The institutions that seem to be universal are the family, education, religion or ideology, government, and economics. However, in advanced, industrial societies, other institutions like medicine or the media play significant roles.

Generally, these interests of sociologists are analyzed through the use of three major perspectives: structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. However, in recent times, other perspectives, such as the feminist perspective, have played important roles in understanding society.
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[BOBO]

Sociology is a pseudo-science for liberals to pontificate about society and put forth theories and philosophies that have no concrete value in the end. Sociologists will tell you to use your "imagination" to view society from a perspective removed from your individual view point. It is all nonsense. When they cite "The Scientific Method" as support for the fact that they are involved in science, they are simply putting a ruse over the fact that they manipulate data to arrive at conclusions that they wanted in the first place. Sociology is an industry for liberals to promote their agenda. It is nothing to be taken seriously.