In this video, sociology is explained as a study of society and human behavior. It also gives the definition of a society, which is a group of people who share the same culture. It says that we all share the same exact culture and although societies can be big, they are actually pretty small. They use examples to make sure that the viewer understands the point that is being given. The example was a girl singing in her room alone except that she wasn’t alone because she learned the song from a friend. She was influenced by the environment around her. The video then brings up the disciplines of sociology like economics and psychology. All these disciplines are aiming to understand the social world “through controlled and repeated observation.” The video then brings up sociological perspective. It points out that it can mean two things, seeing the general as particular and seeing the strange as familiar. The first one means that sociology understand behavior in a wider context. The second ones means looking at things like if it were the first time you have seen it and if you were from another world. These perspectives help us understand problems like women not being able to vote, slavery, etc. The video says that it helps us see the key concepts in society like marginalization, inequality, power, etc.
This video ties into what we learned in class and to the reading. It ties in because we were learning what sociology meant and how we use it in the real world. Our definition that we used in class was that is is one of the social sciences disciplines that study the the human of the social world. We added two examples, an actor and a social analyst. This ties in with video about the two types of sociological perspectives. An actor is a person who sees the world with knowledge on what is already practical. A social analyst looks at the world with deeper insights and uses questions or reasoning to understand the world. The video and the reading both believe that sociology can help us develop that sociological lens. The other thing we mentioned were the different types of discipline. The video mentioned two of the seven that we listed, economics and psychology. We talked about how the disciplines help us shape the way we look at the world. The video I chose gave the same information that the book and the lecture did. It also gave out more information and examples that were helpful.
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