Intro to Soc Week 1: Sociological History!

This week, we learn how sciology became sociology, as well as what the major theories are and how sociologists look at the world!
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction to sociology.Welcome!
00:13 - What is sociology?
01:39 - How sociologists look at society
03:28 -
03:43 - The sociological imagination!
05:15 - How did we get here?The history of sociology!
05:21 - 13th Century proto-sociologist: Ma Tuan-Lin
06:20 - Proto-sociologist: Ibn Khaldun
07:04 - Sociology as a discipline!
08:43 - Karl Marx
10:08 - Sociology as a discipline!
15:15 - Major Theories
17:49 - Functionalism
21:50 - Conflict theory
21:52 - Functionalism
23:06 - Conflict theory
24:05 - Symbolic interactionist theory
26:09 - Goffman's dramaturgical analysis

[@sarkakulova5071]

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[@WhatDidSheDoThisTime]

Thank you so much for doing this!! it's so very helpful!

[@woolzem]

I really loved listening to this. I'm taking an online course. I'm also reading but you hit a lot of interesting points that weren't in the textbook. I'm going to listen to all your videos this semester!! Thank you so much!!

[@CraftyShawn]

Thks for making the videos it's helping me with my coursework

[@helinajeandupa9534]

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[@SuperPupururu]

Thank you very much. I will studying Historical Sociology this year in Prague.

[@RealJustJoe]

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[@kobbyvandertv4579]

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[@sachinsinghadhikari8762]

great lecture..its useful for both beginner and scholar....9:22 is awesome

[@pendulousphallus]

So I feel like this was really well presented but I can't say I have much of a grasp on things. Unlike psychology or anthropology, sociology doesn't have anything sudden and immediate you can point to and understand what the field of study is generally about. Everything about the field so far as I can muster is abstract.

[@suryapariyar46]

Very helpful..Thank you

[@abcrane]

sociology is the psychology of the masses. psychology is the sociology of the individual. the friction and fluidity between individual and group define both. anthropology is this same concept with a historical perspective. and I'm an artist so this is how I am able to come to such conclusions. anyone know a good shrink?

[@moreblessingsvimoni3022]

thanks it's so helpful.l really learnt a lot

[@competitivemizo]

thank you

[@rochelleemmanuel1283]

i understood everything :)

[@rosskelly4200]

I am an older student returning to study, and I wanted a primer for a sociology course I am about to start. I checked out a few intros, and, for what it's worth, I like yours best. Thank you!

[@micheletokar2479]

Do you have these slides in PP?

[@hirdeshkumar7027]

which book are you using ?

[@tenisharai7105]

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[@dthomscappello]

9:30 not at all what Marx believed and your obvious conservative bias is showing in this completely embarrassing explanation of what conflict theory was. Marx was one aspect of critical sociology and his contribution was not "society is made through conflict" but that *economic conflict explains real material social issues. And he absolutely embraced scientific method and in fact it was his application of the method to economics that created socialist theory to begin with. Anyone watching this, please remember American institutions are blindly capitalist and will produce moronic interpretations like this often

[@mota7455]

Capitalism for the win

[@theancientchampionofonenes2287]

There's only one interpretation and thus one denomination in the word of God or bible, the one holy spirit inspired scriptures. Now because men create traditions and want it their way instead of God's way and word, there's divisions and schism in Christianity. One Lord, one faith and one baptism. Jesus is lord of all. His word is to be believed above all else. One baptism, immersion in Jesus name. Any other answer is apostasy and hypocrisy. You can't have it your way, as Jesus alone is the way to God. End of story.

[@helinajeandupa9534]

this is very informational. thank you!