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1. www.cambridge.org › core › booksIdentity (Chapter 4) - The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory

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   Dec 3, 2020 · Summary. This chapter provides an outline of identity theory as it has developed out of its structural symbolic interaction origins. Identities are sets of meanings that define who we are in terms of the roles we have, the groups or social categories to which we belong, or the unique characteristics that make us different from others.The ...

2. learninglink.oup.com › protected › filesCHAPTER 1 THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION - Oxford University Press

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   CHAPTER 1 THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. Chapter Overview. This chapter begins by introducing students to the important distinction between society—the largest human group to share institutions and territory—and culture—a system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and materials.

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   May 9, 2017 · I examine the extensive and interconnected nature of identity content, and then consider the confluence of sociocultural, relational and individual processes by which identities are formed ...

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   Dec 27, 2016 · Definitions of community extracted from the peer-reviewed literature were compared to identify common themes. Qualitative analysis revealed 13 themes, some more common than others.

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 4404557Sociology and Common Sense - JSTOR

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   Sociology and Common Sense Andre Beteille Besides the empirical grounding in careful observation and description of facts, sociology as a discipline is characterised by its rigorous search for interconnections among different domains of society and its systematic use of comparisons.

6. link.springer.com › content › pdfVirtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences - Springer

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   Although understandings of the human person are foundational to social science theory and research, sociologists reflect less on the characteristics of personhood than we do concepts such as structure and culture. 1 Although sociologists rarely engage in ontological debates about personhood, the social sciences nonetheless often contain unsta...

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   What is a human person based on?

   • Adopting a view of the human person based on virtue ethics, critical realism, and personalism introduces important ques-tions about human flourishing and the common good that can be addressed by the emerging field of the sociological study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity.

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   Is there an implicit ontology of personhood in sociology?

   • An implicit ontology of personhood is in fact at work in sociology. Further, not all ontological assumptions about persons and social structures are all compatible. Examining the ontological assumptions about persons and philosophical commitments about societies is thus needed to develop a bet-ter concept of the person.

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   What does sociology mean?

   • A dictionary defines sociology as the systematic study of society and social interaction. The word “sociology” is derived from the Latin word socius (companion) and the Greek word logos (study of), meaning “the study of companionship.” While this is a starting point for the discipline, sociology is actually much more complex.

   Chapter 1: An Introduction to Sociology - Saylor Academy

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   What do sociologists have in common?

   • Although these studies and the methods of carrying them out are different, the sociologists involved in them all have something in common. Each of them looks at society using what pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills called the sociological imagination, sometimes also referred to as the sociological lens or sociological perspective.

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   What is the difference between sociological knowledge and common sense?

   • common sense. It has a body of concepts, cannot be a substitute. For one thing, sociological knowledge aims to be general if not universal, whereas common sense is particular and localised.

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   What is the difference between an individual and a person?

   • For personalists, the difference between an individual and a person is that an individual can be exchanged for another individual, but a person is unique and irreplaceable. In addition, for personalists, the relationality and communion of persons are not created but rather ontologically real (Crosby 2004; Wojtyla 1979).

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   A dictionary defines sociology as the systematic study of society and social interaction. The word “sociology” is derived from the Latin word socius (companion) and the Greek word logos (study of), meaning “the study of companionship.”