Sociological Perspective
The Sociological Perspective
1. The sociological perspective mainly shows specific event and surroundings that influences peoples lives. The base the word of sociology is social which deals with how people interact with others and other groups. Sociologists look at social locations that people are involved with because of where they are in society. Some things that are looked at by sociologists include jobs, income, race-ethnicity, education, gender, etc. Biography and history are important in sociology. History was further studied by C. Wright Mills who said that every society is in the middle of a large amount of events that occur. An example would be the roles of women and men. Mills explained biography as the experiences that occur in historical event. This means that this will give humans instincts for what to do after a certain event in their life occurs. There is internal (instincts) and external mechanism (motivation and thinking). Globalization is also important in sociology. Due to technology with phones and computers, we can easily see how other people across the planet interact with others not only in their communities but with others. Global networking is a great part of finding out who we are and how we portray ourselves.
2. Sociology emerged in the middle 1800s in Europe mainly because of the industrial revolution that was starting to surface and many people were migrating to cities to find work and to better their lives. What they came to realize was that the cities treated the workers with low pay, long hours and dangerous working conditions and the social lives of people had become much different than before the migration to the cities. The scientific method was starting to become important to trying to answer questions of social life. This started the further study of sociology. August Comte was first to suggest that the scientific method should be applied to sociology that produced the positivism process. He began to study the bases of
1. The sociological perspective mainly shows specific event and surroundings that influences peoples lives. The base the word of sociology is social which deals with how people interact with others and other groups. Sociologists look at social locations that people are involved with because of where they are in society. Some things that are looked at by sociologists include jobs, income, race-ethnicity, education, gender, etc. Biography and history are important in sociology. History was further studied by C. Wright Mills who said that every society is in the middle of a large amount of events that occur. An example would be the roles of women and men. Mills explained biography as the experiences that occur in historical event. This means that this will give humans instincts for what to do after a certain event in their life occurs. There is internal (instincts) and external mechanism (motivation and thinking). Globalization is also important in sociology. Due to technology with phones and computers, we can easily see how other people across the planet interact with others not only in their communities but with others. Global networking is a great part of finding out who we are and how we portray ourselves.
2. Sociology emerged in the middle 1800s in Europe mainly because of the industrial revolution that was starting to surface and many people were migrating to cities to find work and to better their lives. What they came to realize was that the cities treated the workers with low pay, long hours and dangerous working conditions and the social lives of people had become much different than before the migration to the cities. The scientific method was starting to become important to trying to answer questions of social life. This started the further study of sociology. August Comte was first to suggest that the scientific method should be applied to sociology that produced the positivism process. He began to study the bases of