The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in SociologyUsing a conceptual organizing framework, this work provides a concise introduction to sociology that focuses on core concepts as the central building blocks for understanding sociology. Written in a conversational style, it uses numerous pedagogical features to help students grasp key sociological concepts. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 19
Page 14
... Social Fact ? Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic prin- ciple that social facts must be studied as things , that is , as realities external to the individual . The system of signs that I employ to express my ...
... Social Fact ? Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic prin- ciple that social facts must be studied as things , that is , as realities external to the individual . The system of signs that I employ to express my ...
Page 15
... social facts could not be reduced to psy- chological or biological facts . By this he meant that social facts ( e.g. , suicide rates ) could only be explained by other social facts ( e.g. , changes in industry or the economy ) , and not ...
... social facts could not be reduced to psy- chological or biological facts . By this he meant that social facts ( e.g. , suicide rates ) could only be explained by other social facts ( e.g. , changes in industry or the economy ) , and not ...
Page 74
... social facts . Sociologists , he said , should study social facts in much the same way that chemists study chemical facts and biologists study biological facts . Durkheim was proposing , in other words , that sociology fol- low the ...
... social facts . Sociologists , he said , should study social facts in much the same way that chemists study chemical facts and biologists study biological facts . Durkheim was proposing , in other words , that sociology fol- low the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Sociological Eye | 27 |
Specialization | 35 |
Copyright | |
18 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieve African American anomie attributes behavior believed bureaucracy called caste system chapter crime culture defining each concept deviant discrimination Durkheim effect Émile Durkheim ethnic ethnocentrism exist expect experience explained females Gemeinschaft gender Gesellschaft goals grade important income independent variable individual institutions interaction latent functions less live look macrosociology manifest function marijuana marriage Marx Matthew effect Max Weber means Merton mobility nature negative sanctions norms occupation one's parents particular people's percent person perspective poor position primary group problems professor questions race relationships religion responses role rules social class social facts social structure social world society sociological concepts sociological imagination sociologists sociology sort status status inconsistency STOP & PEVIEW stratification system subculture suicide teachers tend things Thomas theorem tion Tönnies understand University values Weber women words workers
References to this book
Teaching the Novel Across the Curriculum: A Handbook for Educators Colin C. Irvine No preview available - 2007 |