Sociology

Sociology

An attempt to understand the emergence of the modern world.
Challenges the things we take for granted.
Does it have to be this way? Is there a better way?
Systematic, skeptical and critical study of the social. It is the study of human society.
Avoids ethnocentrism.
Analyzing and interpreting the links between individuals and society.
Three types of approaches: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, conflict theory.
Pierre Bourdieu organises much of his work on contemporary social life around the concept of culture, approaching the symbolic realm of language and meaning as central to the sociological analysis of power, inequality and social change.
Emile Durkheim (1912) – Culture shapes our view of the world – He noted that every culture makes assumptions about fundamental phenomena such as relations of time, space and number.

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