What does it mean to 'think sociologically'? Illustrate your answer with examples from sociological research and from your own experience.
Date Submitted: 10/29/2002 23:20:59
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 7 pages (1860 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 7 pages (1860 words)
A key part of engaging in sociology is to adopt a sociological viewpoint or 'think sociologically'. Etymologically, sociology is the 'study of society' but this doesn't differentiate sociology from other forms of social study. Hence, many begin to describe thinking sociologically by what it is not - it is not thinking politically, thinking anthropologically, thinking historically or thinking psychologically, for example (Berger 1966: 11-36; Reiss 1968: 2-3). Others try to determine the nature of sociological thinking by …
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