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.

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.

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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.

Seeing the General in the Particular.

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.

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.

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

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.