Description
As we have seen, the sociologist has a distinctive way of examining human interactions. Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups. It focuses primarily on the influence of social relationships upon people's attitudes and behavior and on how societies are established and change. As a field of study, sociology has an extremely broad scope. Therefore, this textbook deals with families, gangs, business firms, computer networks, political parties, schools, religions. and labor unions. It is concerned with love, poverty, conformity, technology, discrimination, ill- ness, alienation, overpopulation, and community.
In the United States, newspapers, television, and radio are the usual sources of information about such groups and problems. However, while the basic function of journalists is to report the news, sociologists bring a different type of understanding to such issues. The vision of sociology involves seeing through the outside appearances of people's actions and organizations. ISBN:9780071155441
