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What is sociology?
The systematic study of society and the social activity of human beings.
Sociologists have a unique perspective called the “SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE”.
2 of the main characteristics of this perspective is:
In studying human society, sociologists try to see how particular facts may be the basis of general patterns.
Seeing the “strange in the familiar”. (or “things are not what they seem”) Sociologists go beyond viewing the obvious and being satisfied with it.
What are the benefits of studying sociology or taking the sociological perspective?
It challenges your familiar understanding of the world, so that you can take a new and critical look at what you have assumed to be “true”.
It allows us to understand the constraints and opportunities that affect over lives.
Being unaware of how society operates encourages passive acceptance of the status quo. The sociological perspective, however, enables us to be more active participants in society.
