About concepts of sociology

2. Sociology is

4. Social action is action taken with account taken of the
past, present or future actions, behaviour, and attitudes
of others.
Social action, then, is not action in isolation
Example - A solitary act of meditation.

7. Sorokin's opinionthatsociologyisastudy
First of all the relationship and correlations between
variousclasses.
Second between the social and non social
aspects of life.

8. •Social phenomena are the constantly evolving
individual and external influences that significantly
affect our behaviors and opinions.
•Social phenomena can be caused by politics, historical
events, and behaviors of others.
•Examples of social phenomena include marriage,
WWII, racism, or a violent crime

9. Social phenomena are considered as including all
behavior which influences or is influenced by organisms
sufficiently alive to respond to one another. This
includes influences from past generations.
Third it studies general characteristics common to all
classes of society

15. (Correlation between economic and religious, family
and moral, judicial and economic, mobility and
political phenomena and so on)

18. The most important element of a scientific
study is that a scientist should deal with
bear facts and not with ideal situations.
Results should have universal application.

20. Sociology A Science?
Now a question arises as to
whether sociology is science or
not. Those who support the cause
of sociology as science plead that
a present day sociologists must
be methodological

22. The Scientific Method
Analyze Data
Gather Data
Choose research design
Formulate hypotheses
Review of literature

24. Specialist School of Thought

28. Comte hoped that the systematic
study of social behavior
would eventually lead to more
rational human interactions.