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Sociology In Henslin's The Old Elephant Story

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Sociology provides the opportunity to observe human groups and how they interact or behave. Patterns in these behaviors are what sociologists particularly look at, and which allow them to predict what should happen in the future. Sociology explores subtopics like culture, race, gender, urbanization, and crime. Unlike the other social sciences, sociology looks at the bigger picture of society by placing human behavior in a larger context. The “Old Elephant Story” (Henslin 6), accurately relates sociology to economics, political science, and psychology. The story puts an elephant in place of our society, and shows how the others social sciences, but specifically sociology, relates to it. The sociologist in the story views the entire elephant

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