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Glossary of Sociology terms A Achieved status: Social status based on an individual's effort, rather than traits assigned by biological factors. Examples of achieved status include 'veteran', 'graduate' or 'doctor'. Affirmative action: Action favouring those who tend to suffer from discrimination
Summary. Within social theory, the term ‘modernity’ is most often used to refer to societies that are built on the principles of individual freedom and instrumental mastery.Furthermore, such societies are assumed to have emerged in Western Europe and North America from the late eighteenth century onwards.All debate notwithstanding, this has ...
Different sociologists have given several definition of sociology, including: 1) “Sociology is a scientific study or science of society or of social phenomenon.” L. F. Ward 2) “It is the study of the relationship between man and his human environment.”
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Dictionaries define sociology as the systematic study of society and social interaction. The word “sociology” is derived from the Latin word socius (companion) and the Greek word logos (speech or reason), which together mean “reasoned speech or discourse about companionship.”
1.1. What Is Sociology? Explain the concepts central to sociology. Describe the different levels of analysis in sociology: micro-level sociology, macro-level sociology, and global-level sociology. Define the sociological imagination. 1.2. The History of Sociology. Explain why sociology emerged when it did.
how people convince themselves to act, how they define choices, interpret events and experiences using, amongst other things, signs, symbols, language, myths and meaning (2005: 113–114). For example, national culture can be seen as a discourse carrying meanings that can help shape our actions and self-conceptions of who ‘we’ are:
