Sociology 1501 Summary notes.

Community, Society, and Inequality in a Globalised World 1. The Industrial Revolution …refers to the evolutionary process of social change which swept throughout Western Europe in the 19th century is the revolution which occurred in France in the year of 1789. 2. Sociology is primarily the … study of human social life, groups and societies. study of societal issues and social problems. Sociology is the systematic and scientific study of human social life. Sociologists study people as they form groups and interact with one another. The groups they study may be small, such as married couples, or large, such as a subculture of suburban teenagers. Sociology places special emphasis on studying societies, both as individual entities and as elements of a global perspective. 3. The following statements about the sociological study of human behaviour is correct.... Sociology allows us to examine common sense beliefs in a critical manner. 4. We use our sociological imagination when we … ask factual questions. look at new ways of understanding society and its component parts. seek to understand how our individual lives are related to the larger context. 5. According to Anthony Giddens …drinking coffee holds a non-symbolic value 6. Coffee is a product which stands at the heart of which debates in contemporary history? strongly relate to globalization Has a strong social connotation is a social ritual social interaction 7. Microsociology is the study of people’s interaction over time and space. In sociology the ‘economy’ is most commonly regarded as a macro factor. Macrosociology is the study of large-scale social systems and institutions 8. Which of the following is a good example of a theoretical question? How many South Africans died from chronic diseases last year?