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I went to a park, and everyone was running around. Some were hiding for no reason, and others were trying to catch them. When they caught them, they gave them punishment, I had no idea what was going on.

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I am interested in being a paralegal. Sociology will help me understand better the society, the culture, the way people think and also gain knowledge to think about something from all prospectives.

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Culture is shared beliefs, values, language, norms, and practices by a society.

Norms are rules and behaviors that reflect compliance with what cultures and societies have defined as good, important and right.

Norms have two types, mores and folkways.

Mores are morals and principles of a society (DO's). Folkways are norms without any moral underpinnings. Folkways direct appropriate behavior the day-to-day practices.

Symbols and Language.

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When we think of communicating with people, we instantly think of language. Although we can communicate without using words and we mostly actually do. Only a few of us realize how much we all depend on body movements in our conversations. For example. nodding your head or making "hmm" noises or making expressions with eyes and we instantly know how the other person feels without even them talking or even a smile would do.

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Nacirema is the word American spelled backwards.

The Nacirema is a society/ a group of people that are obsessed with rituals around the human body.

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Social Intergration: how strongly a person is connected to their social group.

Structural Functionalism(macro): It focuses on the way how each part of a society functions together to work as a whole.

Conflict Theory (macro): It focuses the way inequalities contribute to social, political, and power differences.

Symbolic Interactionism(micro): It focuses the way one on one interactions and communications behave.

Social Conflict: inequality, privilege is gained, maintained (ideology)

Micro theories: Symbolic interactionism, Mead, Goffman, symbols, social construction of reality.

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Durkheim, a sociologist, in 1897, did research study on suicide. He discovered that the higher rate of suicide are single men, rich, and protestants. The lower rate of suicide includes married women, poor, and catholic people.

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C. Wright Mills thinks history and biography are connected and it is very important to understand history for the grasping of the sociological imagination.

Personal troubles are usually and mostly connected to social issues. For example, how many people are struggling to find a job? How to make money? or how many people are dealing with drug addictions? All of these are social issues; they affect the society overall.

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Seeing the Strange in the Familiar.

Seeing the General in the Particular.

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Structural: It is concentrated on a group. Sociologists are curious about deciding how membership in a work like religion, influences people's behavior and attitude for example how they vote or how education affects the stand they take on social problems.

Interactional: All the emphasis is on the individual. They focus on what people do when they are in public. They try to understand their behavior, recording the interaction by taking notes or using technology. Some sociologists observe people's behaviors more indirectly by interviewing them. They draw conclusions about people's attitudes and what exactly affects their lives.

*STUDY METHODS

Quantitative sociology: Some sociologists try to determine numbers to represent people's patterns of behavior. They stress that proper measurement by the use of statistical techniques is important if we want to understand human behavior.

Qualitative sociology: Sociologists that instead of numbers focus on the meaning of people's behavior (symbols, mental constructs, ideas, and stereotypes). They focus how people construct their words, how they develop their ideas and attitudes.

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Social sciences are all about human relationships. For example, the natural sciences try to understand the world of nature. Social sciences try to understand the social world. They are divided into specific areas based on their subject matter:

1) Anthropology, cultural and physical

2) Economics, macro and micro

3) Political science, theoretical

4) Psychology, clinical/experimental

5) Sociology, quantitative and qualitative

6) History

History focuses on past events, political science focuses politics or government, it studies the ways people govern themselves. Economics concentrates on a single social institution; they study the production and distribution of the material goods and services of a society. Anthropology is the discipline of sociology; the main focus is to understand the culture. Psychology concentrates on the processes thar come up within an individual. It's usually called the skin-bound organism. Therapists resolve personal issues, try to recover individuals from trauma like abuse, addictions to drugs or alcohol. Anthropology also studies culture.

Unlike all of the above, sociologists are primarily concerned with events in the present. Sociologists don't focus only on a single institution. They focus on contemporary societies; they stress variable external to the individual.

Since all these social sciences focus on human behavior, they do not differ that much in the context of what each study but what exactly they are trying to find.

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Sociology is the study of society, social interactions, group and group interactions, from small personal to large groups.