Introduction to Sociology -by Lee Seung Won(이승원)

1.  summarization of the materials by my own words

 

Sociology is a discipline that studies anything that is related with human’s social lives. Sociologists observe social phenomenon and criticaly analysis to understand about the society. Also they do not study society only by being cooped up in their small rooms. Instead they study by participating in the society. The history of sociology was started by various scholars. The scholars were influenced by the historical issues: like the French Enlightenment. One of the scholars, Comte thought the study of society should be done in a scientific way. And by his infulence Sociology in the early days had a strong character of science. Later there were made two contrast between the side that think sociology more scientific and the side that think sociology to be separate from science. This lead to the contrast between Quantitative vs Qualitative sociology. Sociologists today are studying about various topics of society.

 

 

2.   The new and unusual terms I learned

 

Before I read the material I did not know what sociology really is, and thought vaguely that there must be a certain definition of it. But after reading the materials I found out that there is no certain definition about sociology. It is a complicating and shocking but exiting fact.

 

 

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I think in studying sociology there should be a finality that can be achieved. Something that can be used to solve problems humans have. If there is no such finality the study will be, although useful in the disciple, not useful for the society’s goods. So paying more attention in having finality will shorten the way to  achieving solutions for the society. Society can be studied without the consideration of social benefits, and even without the consideration the studies might give solutions to social problems. But if there is finality sociology might be more practical.