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founders of sociology—Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, George Herbert Mead, Jane Addams, and W. E. B. Du Bois—carried out the two core commitments of sociology.
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Sociology is the systematic study of society and social interaction. In order to carry out their studies, sociologists identify cultural patterns and social forces and determine how Individual-Society Connections: When sociologist Nathan Kierns spoke to his friend Ashley (a pseudonym) about
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Sociology is about understanding the individual's place in the world: where they are, what they do and what their views are. It is about how they come to be in that place and think the things that they think.
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• Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE) is perhaps the earliest person to employ a sociological imagination, arguing that leaders should engage in ‘role modelling’ moral practices they want their citizens to follow. • Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is regarded as the first social scientist because he was the first to carry
sociology and to do this we will be looking at three main ideas: • an initial definition of sociology • the difference between facts and opinions • the sociological perspective – how sociologists look at the social world.
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Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber were early thinkers in the development of sociology. The idea of applying the scientific method to the social world, known as positivism, was first proposed by Auguste Comte.
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an initial sense of what sociology is, how it can help you understand your social world, why the field is worth taking your time to explore, and how sociologists know what they know.
