Sociology Edit Meaning

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Sociology is recognised as an individual subject academically, distinguished from other social sciences of Psychology, economics, social policy etc, but is however more subjective than other social sciences. Collectively, sociology may be defined by its terminology, aims and practice. Sociology is a study of humans, the representation of individuals within a community and attempts to interpret the actions derived from interactivity between people of a social group, community or society (or all three), based upon their position within said group. The interpretation of these actions, and the basis of action within society are cohesive with the values imposed upon the individual within his/her community, which may be based upon culture, religion, education, social position, work, etc and competence within the community, as well as the resolve of others, having a direct influence upon an individuals action.

A social scientist may be concerned with: Social Statics – the study of coexistence of institutions in a system, and their structures and functions; Social Dynamics – the study of change in institutions and systems over time, their development and progress. But it is not his assumed position to consider the problems of the individual human "unit". Sociology is psychology as a Marcoscience?

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"shit happens ... it fucks people up... and leads to social movement and change"

brought to you by Prof. Weffer

-Dude did you go to Core lecture today?

- No man, why would I?

- The thing on sociology this morning was awesome. That was one of the best lectures I've been to.

See weffer, core, sociology, people, movement, society

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The study of various groups within a societal structure that determines the reasons why those groups exist within said societal structure. Simply put, sociology tries to make sense out of why people do what they do in the society they live in, but it's not all-inclusive, nor does sociology explain every single detail. It's an educated guess.

Karl Marx believed very firmly in the conflictive theory of sociology, and that is because he was very communistic in his thinking, whereas, my take is more functionalist, because I believe that people are in this society to serve various functions, and those functions they serve are overall better for the society as a whole, and it brings the person contributing a sense of greater satisfaction knowing that they have contributed to a greater good.

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The subject of looking into somthing too much.

This is a robber..He robs becouse he is poor..He is poor becouse of poor socialization....He had a poor socialisation becouse his parents were in a lower class...His teachers looked down on him and he got a worse education becouse of this...Sociology for ya..

See social, class, people, poor

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An academic discipline designed to:

1. uncover the cause of modern society's problems, aka white males (or even whiteness in general).

2. reveal Marxism as the solution to all of the problems that white males have caused by their oppressive habit of being successful

Sociology Professor: "Why are you in college right now, instead of getting pregnant in high school and dropping out?"

Me: "Because I made responsible choices to avoid that situation and worked hard in school"

Sociology Professor: "Actually, no, it's because you benefitted from White Privilege"

See racism, marxism, sociology, white privilege, professor, college, indoctrination, white guilt, bullcrap, lies

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The study of human sociable behaviour, origins institutions and developent of human society.

similar to psychology

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Study in society, that possibly can be best used in the corrections system.

I am a soc. major and I am focusing on the prison system and more specifically drug offenders. I believe treatment whould be the first option seeing as it is less espensive than the prison system and has shown to be more effective because of less repeat offenders.

See Dustin