1 Sociology - Presentation Transcript 1. 1.The Sociological perspective What is Sociology? Sociology is the scientific study of human society & social behavior. 2. What is Sociology? * It focuses primarily on the influence of social relationships upon people’s attitudes and behavior and on how societies are established and change. * The ultimate aim of sociology as summed up by Samuel Koenig is “ to improve man’s adjustment to life by developing objective knowledge concerning
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| Principles | Impact on health and social care | How and why it works | Functionalism | * Adaptation- refers to the changes that occur in order to maintain various aspects of a social system’s culture. For example families have to adapt to schools. * Goal attainment- a system must define and achieve its primary goals. * Integration- a system must adjust the interrelationship of its component parts. * Latency- latency refers to the rewards that the system offers to keep members motivated
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J. Carpenter 1 Sociological Perspectives on Religion By John Carpenter Sociology B1 CRN 12345 John Carpenter January 1, 2012 J. Carpenter 2 Emile Durkheim (1995: Original 1912) defined religion as a unified system of beliefs, rituals, and practices that define and express the nature of sacred things in relationship to the profane things of the world and, from a sociological perspective, the importance of religion as a social institution cannot be overstated. Consider the fact that
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Introduction “We are surrounded by food. We're constantly bombarded by it. We're consuming larger portion sizes and more calories than ever before…” (Moore, CDCTV, 2010). This quote aptly encapsulates the area of my interest – obesity. In my research paper I will discuss some of the causes of obesity, its effects and the health concerns related to obesity and finally offer suggestions as to how obesity can be treated or prevented. Obesity can be defined as “having excess body fat” whereas
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Symbolic Interactionist is one of the major structures of sociological theory. It analyzes society by acknowledging the personal understanding that people establish on events, objects, and behaviors. This perspective relies on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interaction. Without social interaction, you are not a social being, and this theory observes what people do on a daily basis and why they do them. Seeing that this theory is a micro-level perspective
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective The Simpsons is the name of the program that I will be using. I chose to use the Simpsons because this family is a working class family. There were several scenes that applied to social themes. For instance, the father Homer Simpson is a working class guy but has this really rich boss name Mr. Burns. Homer was interacting with his Boss Mr. Burns and Homer began to make faces and yell at Mr. Burns. Then Mr. Burns has his assistant pull out a checkbook
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SOC 100 July 27, 2015 Bettie Ware Applying the Sociological Perspective An employer is an individual or organization who employs one or more person (employee) for wages or salary, while an employee works for an individual or organization (employer) for wage or salary. The wage that is earn is used to cover expenses by the employee, in the form of bills, to cover health, housing, food, utilities, all seen as a necessity. Functionalism studies society on the macro level, where
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1. Functionalist questions a. What are the functions of Wal-Mart for society? Wal-Mart is an American multinational retail corporation and one of the leading discount department retail stores (Wikipedia). It is the highest- grossing company in the United States (Fortune 2008a), and is by far one of the most successful companies worldwide. Wal-Mart offers a place to buy the majority of our goods under one roof like electronics, furniture, clothing, pharmacy, sports, food, books etc. Wal-Mart sells
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Basics in Social Science “Family and Marriage”– What is Family? Family is considered to be one of the oldest institutions of the society. Sociologists have traditionally viewed the family as a social group whose members are related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption and live together, cooperate economically, and care for the young. (Murdock, 1949) ❖ When we think of a family, we picture it as a more or less durable association of husband and wife with or without children or of a man
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Sociological perspectives Sociological perspectives is a perspective on human behaviour and its connection to society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections between the behaviour of individual people and the structures of the society in which they live. The structures are functionalism, Marxism, Feminist, Interactionism, Collectivism, Postmodernism and New right. Functionalism Functionalism is a perspective created by Emile Durkheim. He believed society was made up of inter-connected
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